Picturing Cuba (eBook)

Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

Jorge Duany (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
320 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
978-1-68340-243-5 (ISBN)

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Picturing Cuba explores the evolution of Cuban visual art and its links to cubanía, or Cuban cultural identity. Featuring artwork from the Spanish colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary periods of Cuban history, as well as the contemporary diaspora, these richly illustrated essays trace the creation of Cuban art through shifting political, social, and cultural circumstances.

Contributors examine colonial-era lithographs of Cuba’s landscape, architecture, people, and customs that portrayed the island as an exotic, tropical location. They show how the avant-garde painters of the vanguardia, or Havana School, wrestled with the significance of the island’s African and indigenous roots, and they also highlight subversive photography that depicts the harsh realities of life after the Cuban Revolution. They explore art created by the first generation of postrevolutionary exiles, which reflects a new identity—lo cubanoamericano, Cuban-Americanness—and expresses the sense of displacement experienced by Cubans who resettled in another country. A concluding chapter evaluates contemporary attitudes toward collecting and exhibiting post-revolutionary Cuban art in the United States.

Encompassing works by Cubans on the island, in exile, and born in America, this volume delves into defining moments in Cuban art across three centuries, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the island’s people, culture, and history.

Contributors: Anelys Alvarez | Lynnette M. F. Bosch | María A. Cabrera Arús | Iliana Cepero | Ramón Cernuda | Emilio Cueto | Carol Damian | Victor Deupi | Jorge Duany | Alison Fraunhar | Andrea O’Reilly Herrera | Jean-François Lejeune | Abigail McEwen | Ricardo Pau-Llosa | E. Carmen Ramos

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Picturing Cuba

Jorge Duany

1. Cuban Colonial Prints: Constructing Our National Identity through Seventeen Projects

Emilio Cueto

2. Between Civilization and Barbarism: Víctor Patricio de Landaluze’s Paintings during the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868–78)

E. Carmen Ramos

3. Colonial Art and Its Afterlife: Visualizing the Nation Then and Now

Alison Fraunhar

4. Cuban Painting at the Turn of the Century (1902–30): The Nexus between Traditional and Vanguard

Anelys Alvarez

5. The Cuban Avant-Garde and the International Art Community

Ramón Cernuda

6. Women Not Successful Here: Cuban Women Artists, from San Alejandro to the Vanguardia

Carol Damian

7. Cuban Architects at Home and in Exile: The Modernist Generation

Victor Deupi and Jean-François Lejeune

8. Concrete Cuba

Abigail McEwen

9. Cuban Photography after 1959: Shifting Paradigms

Iliana Cepero

10. Fashioning and Contesting the Olive-Green Imaginary in Cuban Visual Arts

María A. Cabrera Arús

11. Theatricality in the Art of the Cuban Diaspora: The Progression of Tropes

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

12. The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia: Towards a Theory of Collecting Cuban-American Art

Lynette M. F. Bosch

13. Cuban Art in the Diaspora: The “Chaos of Difference and Repetition”

Andrea O’Reilly Herrera

14. 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 on the Contributors

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 48 color and 16 b/w illus
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Arts and society • Avant Garde Art • Cuban American Art • Cuban American culture • Cuban diaspora • Cuban History • Cuban Revolution • Cuban Studies • Modern painting • national identity • Nationalism • Nationalism and art • visual arts
• ISBN-10: 1-68340-243-X / 168340243X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68340-243-5 / 9781683402435