Picturing Cuba - 9781683402091

Picturing CubaArt, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora\nAuthor(s): Jorge Duany\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9781683402091, 978-1683402091\nSynopsis\nPicturing Cuba explores the evolution of Cuban visual art and its links to cubana, 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 [url] 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.