Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island by Rachel Price

By Rachel Price

Transformations in Cuban paintings, literature and tradition within the post-Fidel era

Cuba has been in a country of huge transformation over the last decade, with its historical resumption of diplomatic kinfolk with the us basically the newest improvement. whereas the political management has replaced path, different forces have taken carry. the surroundings is less than hazard, and the tradition feels the tension of recent types of consumption.

Planet/Cuba examines how artwork and literature have replied to a brand new second, one either extra globalized and no more remarkable; extra all for neighborhood quotidian concerns than foreign alliances; extra threatened through the depredations of planetary capitalism and weather swap than by means of the vagaries of the nation’s govt. Rachel rate examines a desirable array of artists and writers who're tracing a brand new socio-cultural map of the island.

From the exchange Paperback edition.

Show description

Read or Download Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island PDF

Best art books

Philosophy and Conceptual Art

The analytic philosophers writing the following have interaction with the cluster of philosophical questions raised by means of conceptual paintings. They tackle 4 huge questions: what sort of paintings is conceptual paintings? What follows from the truth that conceptual artwork doesn't objective to have aesthetic worth? What wisdom or realizing do we achieve from conceptual artwork?

Making Prints from Nature (Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-177)

In view that 1973, Storey's nation knowledge announcements have provided sensible, hands-on directions designed to assist readers grasp dozens of nation dwelling talents fast and simply. There are actually greater than a hundred and seventy titles during this sequence, and their striking attractiveness displays the typical hope of kingdom and town dwellers alike to domesticate own independence in daily life.

At Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

Across the world popular chinese language artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one in every of modern art's such a lot newsworthy figures, famous for either his groundbreaking paintings and his outspoken stance on human rights, which eventually ended in his debatable 2011 detainment. In an fantastic new large-scale venture, he turns his cognizance to Alcatraz—a position he can't stopover at simply because he isn't approved to go away China, yet that stands as a world-famous image of either incarceration and protest.

The Total Film Maker

‘The overall Film-Maker’ — Jerry Lewis’ booklet on filmmaking, taken from 480 hours of audio tape, recorded as Jerry taught filmmaking on the collage of Southern California, 1971. “It’s it seems that the most effective books written approximately filmmaking ever. It was once published in 1971 and has been out of print because then.

Extra info for Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island

Sample text

Two Pre-Columbian Fiber and Feather Items, a headdress with braided fiber base, a panel with similar base, both with remnant multicolored featherwork, lg. to 23 in. Provenance: Collection of Michael Mitchell, collected in the 1920s by his great-grandfather Ernest Mitchell. $300-400 167. Pre-Columbian Woven Sash, Peru, Nazca, c. , a long sash with zigzag design done in multicolored camelid wool, lg. 132, wd. 2 3/4 in. com 41 174 168. Two Pre-Columbian Wrapped Textile Panels, Nazca, c. , hair bundles wrapped with multicolored wool, with abstract spider designs on a red background, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.

2,500-3,500 195. Pre-Columbian Painted Textile Cushma, Peru, Chancay, c. , woven in two panels and painted with geometric bordered panels, each with a standing figure with crescent-shaped headdress, surrounded by stylized fish or animals, (damage), 33 x 27 in. com 196 197 196. Pre-Columbian Painted Cotton Textile, Peru, Chancay, c. , divided into panels and painted with geometric and stylized zoomorphic designs, (loss), 38 x 26 in. $500-700 197. Peruvian Colonial Painting, a portrait of a Colonial authority, rolls up into a wood case, painted on the inside with foliate design, forged metal clasp, painting 20 x 15 1/2 in.

24 1/2 in. Provenance: Frank Crowinshield, New York, John Graham, New York, 1940s, Arthur Rothenberg. Literature: Sotheby’s African and Oceanic Art, November 15, 2002, pp. 64, 65. $10,000-15,000 252 252. African Carved Wood Royal Stool, Nigeria, Benin, old-style form, the outside relief-carved with snakes, mudfish, and geometric devices, the legs covered with metal strips attributed to the early members of the Igbesanmwan Guild of carvers, ht. 15 1/4, wd. 12, lg. 24 in. $1,000-1,500 253. African Hide-covered Ivory Trumpet, Dan, the side-blown form with remnant hide covering, lg.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.84 of 5 – based on 35 votes