Modern Art in 1940s Cuba (eBook)

Havana's Artists, Critics, and Exhibitions

Alejandro Anreus (Autor)

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2025
320 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
9781683405443 (ISBN)

Infos

The first book to explore the work ofavant-garde artists in Cuba during the nations years as a democracyProviding the first comprehensive historyof modern Cuban art during the 1940s, this book contextualizes the artisticpractices, values, and contributions of the first and second generations ofavant-garde artists on the island within the framework of the nations onlydemocratic period. Between 1940 and the 1952 coup byFulgencio Batista, Cuba experienced a democratic system of government as wellas a vibrant cultural renaissance, particularly in the visual arts. Arthistorian and curator Alejandro Anreus uses interviews with key figures as wellas previously untapped archival materials from this period to explorehowCuban artists collaborated to create distinct visual languagesthatwould become part of the canon of modern art in the Americas.Inthis decade, Cuban art was showcased in major exhibitions both domestically andinternationally,including the landmark 1944 exhibition Modern CubanPainters at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to formal analysis ofspecific artworks, Anreus provides social art history to situate these artistsand their work within their political and economic context. Anreus drawsattention to an influential but overlooked decade in Cubas political andartistic history that reflects postwar hemispheric solidarity and culturalexchange between democracies, highlighting the lasting impact of this time andplace on the global landscape of modern art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.7.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 53 color and 28 b/w illus., notes, bibliography, appendix, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: abstract expressionist • Afro-Cuban • avant-garde • baroque • Caribbean art • Cuban Art • Cuban artists • cultural rennaissance • Democracy • Folk Art • Fulgencio Batista • Geometric abstraction • Guy Pérez Cisneros • Havana • José Gómez Sicre • mestizo-criollo • Modern Cuban Painters • Modern Cuban Painters exhibition • Orígenes • Republic of Cuba
• ISBN-13: 9781683405443 / 9781683405443