My Own Past by Alejandro de la Fuente, Cary Aileen Garca Yero - 9781009586467

Name: My Own Past by Alejandro de la Fuente, Cary Aileen Garca Yero - 9781009586467
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

My Own PastAfrodescendant Contributions to Cuban Art\nAuthor(s): Alejandro de la Fuente, Cary Aileen Garca Yero\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009586467, 978-1009586467\nSynopsis\nIn late eighteenth-century Havana, residents frequently referred to the existence of large communities of negros and pardos as 'officers in the trade of painter' and the authors of 'exquisite works.' But who are these artists, and where can we find their works? What sort of works did they produce? Where were they trained, and how did they master their crafts with such perfection? By centering the artistic production and social worlds of artists of African descent in Cuba since the colonial period, this revisionist history of Cuban art provides compelling answers to these questions. Carefully researched and cogently argued, the book explores the gendered racial biases that have informed the constitution of the Cuban .