Download or read book Picturing Cuba written by Jorge Duany and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba written by Paul Niell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island’s first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana’s central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies, this book investigates how late colonial Cuban society narrated Havana’s founding to valorize Spanish imperial power and used the monuments to underpin a local sense of place and cultural authenticity, civic achievement, and social order. Paul Niell analyzes how Cubans produced heritage at the site of the symbolic ceiba tree by endowing the collective urban space of the plaza with a cultural authority that used the past to validate various place identities in the present. Niell’s close examination of the extant forms of the 1754 and 1828 civic monuments, which include academic history paintings, neoclassical architecture, and idealized sculpture in tandem with period documents and printed texts, reveals a “dissonance of heritage”—in other words, a lack of agreement as to the works’ significance and use. He considers the implications of this dissonance with respect to a wide array of interests in late colonial Havana, showing how heritage as a dominant cultural discourse was used to manage and even disinherit certain sectors of the colonial population.

Download or read book Ana Mercedes Hoyos written by Angel Kalenberg and published by Villegas Asociados. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It deals witb a distinguished career which led the Colombian artist from her early stage of "windows" and "doors" to a series of "atmospheres"--In which she seems to leap through the frames of her earlier paintings to find herself before the light that is on the other side and was merely hinted at before. The white canvases of her "atmospheres" - luminous, sparkling and full of matter - in turn fulfill their cycle, opening the way for a further stage which is marked by the recuperatian of the object and a new and fresh approach to nature.

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Selected Bibliography on Modern Latin American Art written by James A. Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Index to Spanish American Collective Biography The Central American and Caribbean countries written by Sara de Mundo Lo and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of the Cuban and Caribbean Library University of Miami Coral Gables Florida written by University of Miami. Cuban and Caribbean Library and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

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Download or read book List of Books Accessioned and Periodical Articles Indexed in the Columbus Memorial Library written by Columbus Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race Anthropology and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam written by Claude Cernuschi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology. Field work conducted in Cuba, including the witnessing of actual Afro-Cuban religious ritual ceremonies and information collected from informants, enhances the interpretive background against which we can construe the meanings of Lam's art. In the process, Claude Cernuschi argues that Lam hoped to fashion a new hybrid style to foster pride and dignity in the Afro-Cuban community, as well as counteract the acute racism of Cuban culture.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library written by Hispanic Society of America. Library and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: