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Title Picturing Cuba : art, culture, and identity on the island and in the diaspora / edited by Jorge Duany.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Cuba, a moveable nation / Jorge Duany -- Cuban colonial prints: constructing our national identity through seventeen projects / Emilio Cueto -- Between civilization and barbarism: Víctor Patricio de Landaluze?s paintings during the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868-78) / E. Carmen Ramos -- Colonial art and its afterlife: visualizing the nation then and now / Alison Fraunhar -- Cuban painting at the turn of the century (1902-30): the nexus between traditional and vanguard / Anelys Alvarez -- The Cuban avant-garde and the international art community / Ramón Cernuda -- Women not successful here: Cuban women artists, from San Alejandro to the Vanguardia / Carol Damian -- Cuban architects at home and in exile: the modernist generation / Victor Deupi and Jean-Francois Lejeune -- Concret Cuba / Abigail McEwen -- Cuban photography after 1959: shifting paradigms / Iliana Cepero -- Fashioning and contesting the olive-green imaginary in Cuban visual arts / María A. Cabrera Arús -- Theatricality in the art of the Cuban diaspora: the progression of tropes / Ricardo Pau-Llosa -- The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia: towards a theory of collecting Cuban-American art / Lynette M.F. Bosch -- Cuban art in the diaspora: the?chaos of difference and repetition? / Andrea O?Reilly Herrera -- 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Arts and society -- Cuba -- History.
Arts and society.
Cuba.
History.
Arts, Cuban -- History.
Arts, Cuban.
Nationalism and art -- Cuba.
Nationalism and art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Duany, Jorge, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Picturing Cuba. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2019 9781683400905 (DLC) 2018055515 (OCoLC)1080248216
ISBN 9781683401094 (electronic book)
1683401093 (electronic book)
9781683400905
1683400909