Picturing Cuba : art, culture, and identity on the island and in the diaspora /

Picturing Cuba : art, culture, and identity on the island and in the diaspora / edited by Jorge Duany. - Gainesville : University of Florida Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Cuba, a moveable nation / Cuban colonial prints: constructing our national identity through seventeen projects / Between civilization and barbarism: Víctor Patricio de Landaluze?s paintings during the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868-78) / Colonial art and its afterlife: visualizing the nation then and now / Cuban painting at the turn of the century (1902-30): the nexus between traditional and vanguard / The Cuban avant-garde and the international art community / Women not successful here: Cuban women artists, from San Alejandro to the Vanguardia / Cuban architects at home and in exile: the modernist generation / Concret Cuba / Cuban photography after 1959: shifting paradigms / Fashioning and contesting the olive-green imaginary in Cuban visual arts / Theatricality in the art of the Cuban diaspora: the progression of tropes / The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia: towards a theory of collecting Cuban-American art / Cuban art in the diaspora: the?chaos of difference and repetition? / 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 -- Emilio Cueto -- E. Carmen Ramos -- Alison Fraunhar -- Anelys Alvarez -- Ramón Cernuda -- Carol Damian -- Victor Deupi and Jean-Francois Lejeune -- Abigail McEwen -- Iliana Cepero -- María A. Cabrera Arús -- Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- Lynette M.F. Bosch -- Andrea O?Reilly Herrera -- Jorge Duany.

This book delves into several defining moments of Cuba's artistic evolution from a multidisciplinary perspective, including art history, architecture, photography, history, literary criticism, and cultural studies. The essays collected in this volume provide insightful information and interpretation on the historical trajectory of Cuban and Cuban-American art.



9781683401094


Arts and society--History.--Cuba
Arts, Cuban--History.
Nationalism and art--Cuba.


Electronic Books.

NX525 / .P538 2019