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Paris en Panamá / Paris in Panama
Robert Lewis and the History of His Restored Art Works
in the National Theatre of Panama
Anton Rajer

In English | en español


"Paris in Panama is an inspiring bilingual book documenting my country's art and history. It brings alive an important and lost chapter in Latin America's artistic heritage and focuses on the need to preserve and restore it."—Carmen Aleman Healy, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama

This fascinating bilingual book describes for the first time in print the incredible story of the history and restoration of Roberto Lewis's (1874–1949) masterpieces in the National Theatre in Panama. Lewis, who was born in Panama, created his monumental works of art on canvas while living in Paris and brought them to Panama in 1907 for installation in the new theatre, an Italian opera house on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, not far from the Panama Canal. The fully illustrated and researched book places Lewis in the context of Belle Epoque France and documents the recent four-year art restoration process. Included are copies of the original contracts, newspaper articles, and drawings by Lewis for his murals. UNESCO declared Lewis's artistic creation a Cultural Heritage of Mankind in 1997.

For more information about the book, in both English and Spanish, see
www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/paris_in_panama.htm

Distributed for the Robert Lewis Research Project

this is a photo of author Anton Rajer, at work on a conservation project. He is bearded, wearing glasses, and wears a blue work apron over his shirt.Anton Rajer is an art conservator and museum consultant who has worked on collections in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and was formerly the State Capitol conservator. He is co-author, with Christine Style, of Public Sculpture in Wisconsin. The UW Press also distributes his recent book Musuems, Zoos, and Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin.

For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

the cover of Rajer's book is dominated by a large color photo of more than half of the ceiling of the National Theatre of Panama. There is an inset photo of Robert Lewis, and a sepia vignette of the Effel tower and a bateau mouche on the Seine in front of it.

August 2005
LC: 98-090939
144 pp. 8 x 10
176 color and 74 b/w photos, 2 maps
Bilingual: English and Spanish
ISBN 9962-02-425-0 Cloth $40.00 s


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