Handmade in Cuba (eBook)

Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía

Ruth Behar, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Kristin Schwain (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
240 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
978-1-68340-288-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection is an in-depth examination of Ediciones Vigía, an artisanal press that published exquisite books crafted from simple supplies during some of Cuba’s most dire economic periods. Vividly illustrated, this volume shows how the publishing collective responded to the nation’s changing historical and political situation from the margins of society.

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Handmade in Cuba is an in-depth examination of Ediciones Vigía, an artisanal press that published exquisite books crafted from simple supplies during some of Cuba’s most dire economic periods. Vividly illustrated, this volume shows how the publishing collective responded to the nation’s changing historical and political situation from the margins of society, representing Cuban culture across the boundaries of race, age, gender, and genre.



In this volume, poets and scholars reflect on the unique artistic direction of Rolando Estévez, who oversaw the creation of over 500 handmade books and magazines between 1985 and 2014. They highlight the beautiful designs and unusual materials selected, including fabric, metals, wood, feathers, and discarded items. Through diverse perspectives, including an interview with Estévez himself, the essays showcase the unlimited inventive possibilities of books as objects, as sculptural pieces, and as installations. Even in the age of technology, Estévez generated enormous excitement and admiration for these hand-crafted books, and this volume offers the first inside view of this important alternative publishing space.



Contributors: Ruth Behar | Juanamaría Cordones-Cook | Gwendolyn Díaz | Erin Finzer | William Luis | Nancy Morejón | Kim Nochi | Carina Pino Santos | Kristin Schwain | Elzbieta Sklodowska

Autor

Ruth Behar is the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Award. Her many books include Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys and Lucky Broken Girl. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook is the Curators’ Distinguished Research Professor and the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Missouri. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker, she is the author or editor of numerous award winning books, including Nancy Morejón’s Looking Within/Mirar adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas escogidos, 1954–2000. Kristin Schwain, associate professor of art history at the University of Missouri, is the author of Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures

List of Plates

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Stories

1.For the Love of Beautiful Books: An Ode to the Work of Rolando Estévez for Ediciones Vigía

Ruth Behar

2.Estévez Always Walking on the Grass

Nancy Morejón

3.The Artist’s Voice: Rolando Estévez Jordán

Interviewed by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

4.Estévez’s Artistic Journey

Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

Enchantments

5.Tracing the Tracks of Time in Natural Love: Nancy Morejón’s Cántico de la huella

Gwendolyn Díaz

6.“Vigía es Elegua:” Crossing and Dwelling in Barquitos del San Juan (2007)

Kristin Schwain

7.An Enchanting Exchange: The Gift Economy of Vigía Books

Erin S. Finzer

8.The Brilliant Poverty of Vigía

Carina Pino Santos

Histories

9.Vigía Iconography and the Construction of a Cuban Identity

Kim Larson

10.Between Wonder and Resonance: Ediciones Vigía and the Archives of the Special Period in Cuba

Elzbieta Sklodowska

11.Vigía and the Cuban Nation

William Luis

Bibliography

Filmography

Contributors

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Arte povera • Artisanal Press • Artist's Books • book design • bookmaking • book preservation • Collaborative Work • Creativity • Cuban-American writer • Cuban Culture • Cuban Handmade Books • Cuban literary and artistic culture • Cuban Revolution • cuban writers • cultural activist • Cultural ties • Diaspora • Ediciones Vigia • El Fortin • Identities • Image and Text • Island • Matanzas History • Narratives • one-of-a-kind book • Poetry • Rolando Estevez
• ISBN-10: 1-68340-288-X / 168340288X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68340-288-6 / 9781683402886