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Picturing Cuba - Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Picturing Cuba - Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Picturing Cuba explores the evolution of Cuban visual art and its
links to cubania, 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.
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