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Book Arturo Montoto

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  • Author : Arturo Montoto
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Arturo Montoto written by Arturo Montoto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cubans

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  • Author : Anthony DePalma
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2020-05-26
  • ISBN : 052552245X
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Cubans written by Anthony DePalma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see . . . You won't forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma's bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island . . . A remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor."--The New York Times Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years. Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long. In Guanabacoa, longtime residents prove enterprising in the extreme. Scrounging materials in the black market, Cary Luisa Limonta Ewen has started her own small manufacturing business, a surprising turn for a former ranking member of the Communist Party. Her good friend Lili, a loyal Communist, heads the neighborhood's watchdog revolutionary committee. Artist Arturo Montoto, who had long lived and worked in Mexico, moved back to Cuba when he saw improving conditions but complains like any artist about recognition. In stark contrast, Jorge García lives in Miami and continues to seek justice for the sinking of a tugboat full of refugees, a tragedy that claimed the lives of his son, grandson, and twelve other family members, a massacre for which the government denies any role. In The Cubans, many patriots face one new question: is their loyalty to the revolution, or to their country? As people try to navigate their new reality, Cuba has become an improvised country, an old machine kept running with equal measures of ingenuity and desperation. A new kind of revolutionary spirit thrives beneath the conformity of a half century of totalitarian rule. And over all of this looms the United States, with its unpredictable policies, which warmed towards its neighbor under one administration but whose policies have now taken on a chill reminiscent of the Cold War.

Book Cuban Studies 34

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  • Author : Lisandro Perez
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2004-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780822942191
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Cuban Studies 34 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Book Artbibliographies Modern

Download or read book Artbibliographies Modern written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuban Studies 38

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  • Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2008-01-27
  • ISBN : 0822971127
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Cuban Studies 38 written by Louis A. Perez, Jr. and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2008-01-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies 38 examines topics that include: liberalism emanating from Havana in the early 1800s; Jose Martí's theory of psychocoloniality; the relationship between sugar planters, insurgents, and the Spanish military during the revolution; new aesthetics in Cuban cinema, the “recovery” of poet José Angel Buesa, and the meaning of Elián Gonzales in the context of life in Miami.

Book Culture and the Cuban State

Download or read book Culture and the Cuban State written by Yvon Grenier and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and the Cuban State examines the politics of culture in communist Cuba. It focuses on cultural policy, censorship, and the political participation of artists, writers and academics such as Tania Bruguera, Jesús Díaz, Rafael Hernández, Kcho, Reynier Leyva Novo, Leonardo Padura, and José Toirac. The cultural field is important for the reproduction of the regime in place, given its pretense and ambition to be eternally “revolutionary” and to lead a genuine “cultural revolution”. Cultural actors must be mobilized and handled with care, given their presumed disposition to speak their mind and to cherish their autonomy. This book argues that cultural actors also seek recognition by the main (for a long time the only) sponsor and patron of the art in Cuba: the “curator state”. The “curator state” is also a “gatekeeper state,” arbitrarily and selectively opening and closing the space for public expression and for access to foreign currencies and the global market. The time when everything was either mandatory or forbidden is over in Cuba. The regime seems to have learned from egregious mistakes that led to a massive exodus of artists, writers and academics. In a country where things change so everything could stay the same, the controlled opening in the cultural field, playing on the actors' ambition and fear, illuminates a broader phenomenon: the evolving rules of the political game in the longest standing dictatorship of the hemisphere.

Book Havana Beyond the Ruins

Download or read book Havana Beyond the Ruins written by Anke Birkenmaier and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at portrayals of Havana in literature, music, and the visual arts in the post-Soviet era, as the city is reinvented as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.

Book Cuban Studies 36

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  • Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2005-12-01
  • ISBN : 0822971003
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Cuban Studies 36 written by Louis A. Perez, Jr. and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. This volume contains articles on economics, politics, racial and gender issues, and the exodus of Cuban Jewry in the early 1960s, among others.

Book Art Index Retrospective

Download or read book Art Index Retrospective written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caviar with Rum

Download or read book Caviar with Rum written by J. Loss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited in Cuban memory these days and what that means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

Book Artecubano

Download or read book Artecubano written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Nexus

Download or read book Art Nexus written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Caviar with Rum

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  • Author : Jacqueline Loss
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2012-09-06
  • ISBN : 1137031344
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Caviar with Rum written by Jacqueline Loss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No country in Latin America has escaped the symbolic influence of the United States to the extent that Revolutionary Cuba has. This resistance meant that for approximately three decades the Soviet Union had an invitation to intervene in practically all Cuban spheres. With sixteen essays by renowned writers and artists, Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience is the first book of its kind to bring to life how and why the Soviet period is revisited these days and what this means for creative production and the future of geopolitics.

Book Confluencias inside

Download or read book Confluencias inside written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition of 26 contemporary Cuban artists such as Agustín Bejarano, Belkis Ayón, Eduardo Roca Choco, Flora Fong, Alexis Leyva Kcho, Eduardo Ponjuán, Roberto Fabelo, Los Carpinteros, Roberto Diago, Zaida del Río and others reflect in their artistic creations the plurality in art in Cuba and the country's introduction into the comercial art world. The exhibition curated by Juan Delgado, was part of the cultural events of the Festival Internacional de Música held in Morelia, Michoacán, a music event dedicated to Cuba.

Book Cuba International

Download or read book Cuba International written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dejame Que Te Cuente

Download or read book Dejame Que Te Cuente written by Margarita González and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: