| Edition |
New ed. |
| Description |
424 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Catalogue of the exhibition presented by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana. |
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Exhibition venues: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 31-June 8, 2008; Groninger Museum, May 17-Sept. 20, 2009. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-[423]). |
| Contents |
Foreword / Moraima Clavijo Colom -- Regarding Cuban art / Nathalie Bondil -- Depicting Cuba : finding ways to express a nation (1868-1927) Timeline / Aylet Ojeda Jequin ; Photography and reportage in the early twentieth century (1895-1930) / Rufino del Valle Valdes ; Nineteenth-century Cuban society / Olga Lopez Nunez ; Discovering the Cuban landscape / Ernesto Cardet Villegas -- Arte Nuevo : the avant-garde and the re-creation of identity (1927-1938) Timeline / Aylet Ojeda Jequin ; Joaquin Blez, photographer to high-society / Iliana Cepero Amador ; Walker Evans and The crime of Cuba / Jeff L. Rosenheim ; Graphics and visual culture / Luz Merino Acosta ; The School of Havana : between tradition and modernity / Ramón Vázquez Díaz ; The smell of roasted chestnuts / Graziella Pogototti ; From social commentary to militant art / Roberto Cobas Amate -- Cubanness : affirming a cuban style (1938-1959) Timeline / Aylet Ojeda Jequin ; The all-night city / Rosa Lowinger ; Constantino Arias : the indefatigable freelance photographer / Iliana Cepero Amador ; In search of an identity (1938-1958) / Rufino del Valle Valdés ; The search for Cuban universality / Roberto Cobas Amate ; Lam, a visual arts manifesto for the Third World / Roberto Cobas Amate ; From Havana to the MoMA / Luz Merino Acosta ; The 1950s : concealed identity / Elsa Vega Dopico -- Within the revolution, everything : against the revolution, nothing (1959-1979) Timeline / Aylet Ojeda Jequin ; Myths and realities : Cuban photography of the 1960s and 1970s / Iliana Cepero Amador ; The 1960s : rediscovering identity / Liana Ríos Fitzsimmons ; The incredible decade : a personal reminiscence / Ambrosio Fornet ; The 1970s : recovery and contemporaneity / Hortensia Montero Méndez ; Paris in Cuba 1967 : the Salón de Mayo and the Cuba colectiva Mural / Günter Schütz ; The Cuban poster : between the rose and the thorn / Elsa Vega Dopico ; Cuban cinema / Timothy Barnard -- The revolution and me : the individual within history (1980-2007) Timeline / Aylet Ojeda Jequin ; The emergence of a new poetics : Volumen uno / Corina Matamoros Tuma ; New Cuban art begins / Gerardo Mosquera ; Art's round trip to Utopia : the visual arts and cultural politics in late twentieth-century Cuban society / Antonio Eligio Fernández [Tonel] ; The island burden: insularity and singularity / Corina Matamoros Tuma. |
| Summary |
This catalog, which accompanied 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 endeavors and social realities. Numerous essays explore aspects of the Cuban visual arts such as nineteenth-century landscapes and photojournalism, the burgeoning of the arte nuevo period, Wifredo Lam's seminal African-inspired images, the creation of the famed collective mural, Castro-era poster art and the emergence of a new generation of artists. |
| Subject |
Arts, Cuban -- Exhibitions.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Cuba -- Exhibitions.
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Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Cuba -- Exhibitions.
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Cuba -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Arts, Cuban. (OCoLC)fst00817983
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Arts, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00818137
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Cuba. (OCoLC)fst01205805
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Bondil, Nathalie.
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Cuba)
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Fototeca de Cuba.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cuba. New ed. [Montreal : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts ; New York, NY : Prestel Verlag, 2009] (OCoLC)741480393 |
| ISBN |
9783791343945 |
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3791343947 |
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9783791340197 (hardback) |
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3791340190 (hardback) |
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