Cuba: Art and History from 1868 to TodayCuba's artistic tradition is as rich as its history, though its treasures are rarely appreciated outside of the country. This catalog, accompanying an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, gathers paintings, drawings and photography from Cuba done over the past century and a half. In addition to hundreds of works on paper, it features revealing photographs??????some never before published??????that record the country's wars of independence and revolution, its utopian endeavours and social realities. Numerous essays explore aspects of the Cuban visual arts such as nineteenthcentury landscapes and photojournalism, the burgeoning of the arte nuevo period, Wifredo Lam's seminal Africaninspired images, the creation of the famed collective mural, Castro-era poster art and the emergence of a new generation of artists. This book chronicles a unique culture of synthesis, born at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and the Americas, and whose art bears witness to important historical events of the past 150 years. |
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Timeline Aylet Ojeda Jequin 150 | 12 |
Timeline Aylet Ojeda Jequin | 24 |
Nineteenthcentury Cuban Society Olga López Núñez | 44 |
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Academy of San Afro-Cuban Alberto KORDA Alejo Carpentier Amelia Peláez Anonymous Antonio Antonio Gattorno avant-garde award began Bellas Artes Born in Havana Carlos Enríquez Centre century cm Fototeca cm Museo Nacional cm The Metropolitan cm Vicki Gold colour Crime of Cuba Cuba's Cuban art Cuban painting cultural Curator Director Domingo RAMOS Eduardo Abela Fernández Fidel Castro film Fototeca de Cuba gallery García Menocal Gelatin silver print Gold Levi Collection Havana Biennial Havana Inv held illustrated images island Joaquín BLEZ José Martí Juan Korda landscape Machado magazine Marcelo Pogolotti Mariano Rodríguez Martínez MNBA Modern Art Montreal Museum mural Museum of Art Nacional de Bellas Oil on canvas OSPAAAL painter Paris photographs portraits poster published Raúl René Portocarrero return to Cuba Revolución Revolution revolutionary San Alejandro Santiago de Cuba Sculpture social solo exhibition Spain Spanish studied Sugar Mill tion Untitled Vicki Gold Levi visual arts Walker Evans Wifredo Lam York