Picturing Cuba : art, culture, and identity on the island and in the diaspora / edited by Jorge Duany.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duany, Jorge, editor.

Series:

Florida scholarship online.

Florida scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--Cuba--History.

Arts and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida Press, [2020]

Summary:

Situating Cuban art within a wider social and historical context, fifteen prominent scholars and collectors scrutinize the enduring links between Cuban art and cultural identity. Covering the main periods in Cuban art (the colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary phases, as well as the contemporary diaspora), the contributors identify both the constant and changing elements and symbols in the visual representation of Cuba's national identity. The essays collected in this volume provide insightful information and interpretation on the historical trajectory of Cuban and Cuban-American art.

Contents:

Introduction: Cuba, a moveable nation / Jorge Duany

Cuban colonial prints: constructing our national identity through seventeen projects / Emilio Cueto

Between civilization and barbarism: Víctor Patricio de Landaluze?s paintings during the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868-78) / E. Carmen Ramos

Colonial art and its afterlife: visualizing the nation then and now / Alison Fraunhar

Cuban painting at the turn of the century (1902-30): the nexus between traditional and vanguard / Anelys Alvarez

The Cuban avant-garde and the international art community / Ramón Cernuda

Women not successful here: Cuban women artists, from San Alejandro to the Vanguardia / Carol Damian

Cuban architects at home and in exile: the modernist generation / Victor Deupi and Jean-Francois Lejeune

Concret Cuba / Abigail McEwen

Cuban photography after 1959: shifting paradigms / Iliana Cepero

Fashioning and contesting the olive-green imaginary in Cuban visual arts / María A. Cabrera Arús

Theatricality in the art of the Cuban diaspora: the progression of tropes / Ricardo Pau-Llosa

The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia: towards a theory of collecting Cuban-American art / Lynette M.F. Bosch

Cuban art in the diaspora: the ?chaos of difference and repetition? / Andrea O?Reilly Herrera

From burning paintings to domestic anxieties: shifting cultural relations between the United States and Cuba and between Cubans on and off the island / Jorge Duany.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68340-243-X

1-68340-119-0

1-68340-109-3