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Picturing Cuba

Name: Picturing Cuba
Author: Jorge Duany
ISBN: 9781683402091

Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

Edited by Jorge Duany

Published by: University of Florida Press

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...

320 Pages6.00 × 9.0048 color and 16 b/w illus

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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.

Jorge Duany is director of the Cuban Research Institute and professor of anthropology at Florida International University. He is the author of several books, including Un pueblo disperso: Dimensiones sociales y culturales de la diáspora cubana and Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States.

“Compelling and relevant. Takes readers on a journey through the history of Cuban art’s significance, demonstrating how art has mirrored the cultural life of the country as well as how politics affect the production of art itself.”—Isabel Alvarez Borland, coeditor of Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities

“An excellent, wide-ranging introduction to Cuban art, its historiography, and the politics of its production, reception, and exhibition. … The essays, ordered chronologically, provide a clear, generously illustrated account of the varied attempts through time to isolate and figure cubanidad in the visual arts. … Highly recommended.”—Choice
“An insightfully curated and richly illustrated compilation of fourteen essays by leading Cuban studies scholars. … A veritable primer for anyone who is interested in Cuba’s artistic production.”—ARLIS/NA Reviews

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Picturing Cuba
Jorge Duany

Chapter 1. Cuban Colonial Prints: Constructing Our National Identity through Seventeen Projects
Emilio Cueto

Chapter 2. Between Civilization and Barbarism: Víctor Patricio de Landaluze’s Paintings during the Ten Years War in Cuba (1868–78)
E. Carmen Ramos

Chapter 3. Colonial Art and Its Afterlife: Visualizing the Nation Then and Now
Alison Fraunhar

Chapter 4. Cuban Painting at the Turn of the Century (1902–30): The Nexus between Traditional and Vanguard
Anelys Alvarez

Chapter 5. The Cuban Avant-Garde and the International Art Community
Ramón Cernuda

Chapter 6. Women Not Successful Here: Cuban Women Artists, from San Alejandro to the Vanguardia
Carol Damian

Chapter 7. Cuban Architects at Home and in Exile: The Modernist Generation
Victor Deupi and Jean-François Lejeune

Chapter 8. Concrete Cuba
Abigail McEwen

Chapter 9. Cuban Photography after 1959: Shifting Paradigms
Iliana Cepero

Chapter 10. Fashioning and Contesting the Olive-Green Imaginary in Cuban Visual Arts
María A. Cabrera Arús

Chapter 11. Theatricality in the Art of the Cuban Diaspora: The Progression of Tropes
Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Chapter 12. The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia: Towards a Theory of Collecting Cuban-American Art
Lynette M. F. Bosch

Chapter 13. Cuban Art in the Diaspora: The “Chaos of Difference and Repetition”
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera

Chapter 14. 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

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Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

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Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

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