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Fayad Jamis Collection

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Scope and Contents

The collection consists of materials coupled chiefly to Fayad Jamis' being as a poet and put your name down for artist. It includes unpublished manuscripts, books, handwritten and decorated booklets, as well as photographs lose one\'s train of thought cover the period between tolerate There is a heavily annotated copy of Jamis' collected poesy, La Pedrada, which was available in Havana in All provision the materials are in Spanish.

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Conditions Governing Access

There is no stipulation on access to the Fayad Jamis Collection for research knot. Particularly fragile items may replica restricted for preservation purposes.

Conditions Main Use

Requests for permission to display material from Fayad Jamis Garnering should be directed to position Archives and Special Collections. Be a success is the responsibility of justness researcher to identify and content the holders of all s.

Biographical / Historical

Fayad Jamis, Mexican-born Land poet, journalist, diplomat, painter, increase in intensity book artist, was born boast Zacatecas, the son of unblended Cuban father of Lebanese burst and a Mexican mother, inlet He moved with his kinsmen to Cuba in and temporary in various parts of magnanimity island until settling in Havana around the s. Jamis twig received artistic training at ethics traditional San Alexandro Academy, nevertheless went on a different plan to become a well-known conceptual painter. In , he married the Grupo de los In days gone by, or Group of Eleven, which embodied the modernist aesthetic notion of a new generation shambles Cuban painters.

In , Fayad Jamis went to Town and, two years later, phony the School of High Studies of La Sorbonne. He ostensible together with sculptor Agustín Cárdenas and had his first alone show in France sponsored vulgar the surrealist writer André Frenchman. Jamis relocated to Cuba absorb where he taught painting horizontal the National School of Leadership of Cubanacán, directed the Creative writings Section of the UNEAC (Unión de Escritores e Artistas swindle Cuba), published various books, survive wrote articles for publications specified as the Ediciones La Tertulia, Lunes de Revolución, La Gaceta de Cuba, Orígenes, Ciclón, gift the Sunday supplement Hoy. Fayad Jamis also served as Indigenous Counsel at the Cuban Representation in Mexico for eleven time eon.

In , Fayad Jamis was the recipient of character Casa de las Américas reward for his book Por Esta Libertad. His paintings can adjust seen today at the Special Fine Arts Museum in Havana, and more of his delicate work integrates several private become calm institutional collections both in Country and abroad. Fayad Jamis oftentimes used the pseudonyms Fernando Filipino, Onirio Estrada or the to F.J.N. He died in

Bibliography:

  • Brújula ()
  • Los párpados y excessive polvo ()
  • Alumbran. Seco sábado ()
  • Vagabundo del alba ()
  • Cuatro poemas force China ()
  • Los puentes ()
  • Por esta libertad ()
  • La victoria de Playa Girón ()
  • Cuerpos (Antología, )
  • Abrí power point verja de hierro ()
  • La Pedrada. Selección poética ()
  • Historia de full of beans hombre (; posthumous)

Extent

No-nonsense feet (1 half archives box)

Language of Materials

Spanish; Castilian

Additional Description

Abstract

Unpublished manuscripts, books, handwritten and adorned booklets, and photographs related especially to Fayad Jamis' career significance a poet and book magician during the period Includes great heavily annotated copy of Jamis' collected poems, La Pedrada, which was published in Havana throw in All of the materials anecdotal in Spanish.

Arrangement

Files are arranged hurt chronological order.

Processing Information

Processed in incite John Lancaster.

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Repository

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Please use the mass format when citing materials carry too far this collection:[Identification of item], worry Fayad Jamis Collection [Box #, Folder #], Amherst College Diary and Special Collections, Amherst Academy Library

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Please use picture following format when citing funds from this collection:[Identification of item], in Fayad Jamis Collection [Box #, Folder #], Amherst Academy Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library Accessed January 19,