Cuban artists across the diaspora [electronic resource] : setting the tent against the house / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrera, Andrea O'Reilly.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban American art.

Displacement (Psychology) in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin [Tex.] : University of Texas Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As an island—a geographical space with mutable and porous borders—Cuba has never been a fixed cultural, political, or geographical entity. Migration and exile have always informed the Cuban experience, and loss and displacement have figured as central preoccupations among Cuban artists and intellectuals. A major expression of this experience is the unconventional, multi-generational, itinerant, and ongoing art exhibit CAFÉ: The Journeys of Cuban Artists. In Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora, Andrea O'Reilly Herrera focuses on the CAFÉ project to explore Cuba's long and turbulent history of movement and rupture from the perspective of its visual arts and to meditate upon the manner in which one reconstitutes and reinvents the self in the context of diaspora. Approaching the Cafeteros' art from a cultural studies perspective, O'Reilly Herrera examines how the history of Cuba informs their work and establishes their connections to past generations of Cuban artists. In interviews with more than thirty artists, including José Bedia, María Brito, Leandro Soto, Glexis Novoa, Baruj Salinas, and Ana Albertina Delgado, O'Reilly Herrera also raises critical questions regarding the many and sometimes paradoxical ways diasporic subjects self-affiliate or situate themselves in the narratives of scattering and displacement. She demonstrates how the Cafeteros' artmaking involves a process of re-rooting, absorption, translation, and synthesis that simultaneously conserves a series of identifiable Cuban cultural elements while re-inscribing and transforming them in new contexts. An important contribution to both diasporic and transnational studies and discussions of contemporary Cuban art, Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora ultimately testifies to the fact that a long tradition of Cuban art is indeed flourishing outside the island.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

For the Cuban Dead

Café cubano à la Grisel

Introduction: Setting the Tent Against the House

Chapter one. Cuban Cultural Expression On and Off the Island. The Condition of “Un-Freedom

Chapter two. Repeating the Unrepeatable: CAFÉ and the Journeys of Cuban Artists

Chapter three. Mapmaking in Diaspora: A Crumb of Madeleine

Chapter four. CAFÉ and the Cuban Modernist Movement

Chapter five. Seams of Continuity: The Landscape of the Dispossessed

Chapter six. The Architecture of Longing and Remembrance

Chapter seven. The Trope of Displacement, the Disruption of Space

Chapter eight. Discourses of Positionality

The Stranger

Epilogue. Cuba: A Work-in-Progress

Appendix A

Appendix B

Notes

List of Illustrations

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-292-72995-2

OCLC:

741751635