Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s

Author: Abigail McEwen

Publisher: David Zwirner Books

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781941701331

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Radical political shifts that raged throughout Cuba in the 1950s coincided with the development of Cuban geometric abstraction and, notably, the formation of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters). The decade was marked by widespread turmoil and corruption following the 1952 military coup and by rising nationalist sentiments. At the same time, Havana was undergoing rapid urbanization and quickly becoming an international city. Against this vibrant backdrop, artists sought a new visual language in which art, specifically abstract art, could function as political and social practice. Concrete Cuba marks one of the first major presentations outside of Cuba to focus exclusively on the origins of concretism in the country. It includes important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the twelve artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group: Pedro Álvarez, Wifredo Arcay, Mario Carreño, Salvador Corratgé, Sandú Darié, Luis Martínez Pedro, Alberto Menocal, José M. Mijares, Pedro de Oraá, José Ángel Rosabal, Loló Soldevilla, and Rafael Soriano. Many of the group’s members had traveled widely in the preceding years and corresponded with those at the forefront of European and South American abstract movements. Produced on the occasion of the major exhibition at David Zwirner, Concrete Cuba is the first in-depth catalogue on the subject to be published in English; the show offered a “wonderful taste of a very complicated history,” according to Roberta Smith of The New York Times. With an extensive plate section, which includes works from the exhibition and a selection of important pieces from the permanent collection of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, this volume provides readers with a rich visual experience of this crucial period in modernism’s history. The catalogue also features an extensively researched illustrated chronology, compiled by Susanna Temkin, which tracks the development of the period artistically and politically from 1939 through 1964. New scholarship by Abigail McEwen offers an interpretative framework for this group of artists, and a deeper understanding of the forces behind the development of this movement. Also included is a conversation between Lucas Zwirner and Pedro de Oraá, one of the central members of Los Diez.

Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition

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Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781941701461

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The development of Cuban geometric abstraction and, specifically, the formation of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters), coincided with the radical political and cultural shifts that raged throughout the country in the 1950s. Cuba experienced rising nationalist sentiments instigated in part by the influx of US tourism and material goods. Against this vibrant backdrop, artists sought a new visual language in which art, specifically abstract art, could function as political and social practice. Concrete Cuba, produced on the occasion of the 2015-2016 exhibition at David Zwirner, marks one of the first major presentations outside Cuba to focus exclusively on concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and includes important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the 12 artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group: Pedro �lvarez, Wifredo Arcay, Mario Carre�o, Salvador Corratg�, Sand� Dari�, Luis Mart�nez Pedro, Alberto Menocal, Jos� M. Mijares, Pedro de Ora�, Jos� �ngel Rosabal, Lol� Soldevilla, and Rafael Soriano. The catalogue features an extensively researched chronology, compiled by art historian Susanna Temkin, tracking the development of the period artistically and politically from 1939 through 1968. New scholarship by Cuban art specialist Abigail McEwen offers an interpretative framework for this group of painters, and a deeper understanding of the forces behind the development of concretism's Cuban strain. A limited edition of 100 copies will be published as well, and will come with one of five signed and numbered prints by Pedro de Ora�. These five unique prints are based on works completed during the height of de Oraa's Concrete period in the 1950s. In contrast to his later works in which forms were modified by expanding and stretching an image taken from an original draft, these works are true to the original drafts created in the 1950s and follow strict principles of Concretism. In keeping with the works from the exhibition Concrete Cuba at David Zwirner in 2015, de Oraa's five limited edition prints remain loyal to the spirit of the decade from which they are inspired.

Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition

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Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781941701478

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The development of Cuban geometric abstraction and, specifically, the formation of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters), coincided with the radical political and cultural shifts that raged throughout the country in the 1950s. Cuba experienced rising nationalist sentiments instigated in part by the influx of US tourism and material goods. Against this vibrant backdrop, artists sought a new visual language in which art, specifically abstract art, could function as political and social practice. Concrete Cuba, produced on the occasion of the 2015-2016 exhibition at David Zwirner, marks one of the first major presentations outside Cuba to focus exclusively on concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and includes important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the 12 artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group: Pedro �lvarez, Wifredo Arcay, Mario Carre�o, Salvador Corratg�, Sand� Dari�, Luis Mart�nez Pedro, Alberto Menocal, Jos� M. Mijares, Pedro de Ora�, Jos� �ngel Rosabal, Lol� Soldevilla, and Rafael Soriano. The catalogue features an extensively researched chronology, compiled by art historian Susanna Temkin, tracking the development of the period artistically and politically from 1939 through 1968. New scholarship by Cuban art specialist Abigail McEwen offers an interpretative framework for this group of painters, and a deeper understanding of the forces behind the development of concretism's Cuban strain. A limited edition of 100 copies will be published as well, and will come with one of five signed and numbered prints by Pedro de Ora�. These five unique prints are based on works completed during the height of de Oraa's Concrete period in the 1950s. In contrast to his later works in which forms were modified by expanding and stretching an image taken from an original draft, these works are true to the original drafts created in the 1950s and follow strict principles of Concretism. In keeping with the works from the exhibition Concrete Cuba at David Zwirner in 2015, de Oraa's five limited edition prints remain loyal to the spirit of the decade from which they are inspired.

Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition

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Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781941701485

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The development of Cuban geometric abstraction and, specifically, the formation of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters), coincided with the radical political and cultural shifts that raged throughout the country in the 1950s. Cuba experienced rising nationalist sentiments instigated in part by the influx of US tourism and material goods. Against this vibrant backdrop, artists sought a new visual language in which art, specifically abstract art, could function as political and social practice. Concrete Cuba, produced on the occasion of the 2015-2016 exhibition at David Zwirner, marks one of the first major presentations outside Cuba to focus exclusively on concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and includes important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the 12 artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group: Pedro �lvarez, Wifredo Arcay, Mario Carre�o, Salvador Corratg�, Sand� Dari�, Luis Mart�nez Pedro, Alberto Menocal, Jos� M. Mijares, Pedro de Ora�, Jos� �ngel Rosabal, Lol� Soldevilla, and Rafael Soriano. The catalogue features an extensively researched chronology, compiled by art historian Susanna Temkin, tracking the development of the period artistically and politically from 1939 through 1968. New scholarship by Cuban art specialist Abigail McEwen offers an interpretative framework for this group of painters, and a deeper understanding of the forces behind the development of concretism's Cuban strain. A limited edition of 100 copies will be published as well, and will come with one of five signed and numbered prints by Pedro de Ora�. These five unique prints are based on works completed during the height of de Oraa's Concrete period in the 1950s. In contrast to his later works in which forms were modified by expanding and stretching an image taken from an original draft, these works are true to the original drafts created in the 1950s and follow strict principles of Concretism. In keeping with the works from the exhibition Concrete Cuba at David Zwirner in 2015, de Oraa's five limited edition prints remain loyal to the spirit of the decade from which they are inspired.

Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition
Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, Limited Edition

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Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781941701492

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The development of Cuban geometric abstraction and, specifically, the formation of Los Diez Pintores Concretos (Ten Concrete Painters), coincided with the radical political and cultural shifts that raged throughout the country in the 1950s. Cuba experienced rising nationalist sentiments instigated in part by the influx of US tourism and material goods. Against this vibrant backdrop, artists sought a new visual language in which art, specifically abstract art, could function as political and social practice. Concrete Cuba, produced on the occasion of the 2015-2016 exhibition at David Zwirner, marks one of the first major presentations outside Cuba to focus exclusively on concretism in Cuba during the 1950s, and includes important works from the late 1940s through the early 1960s by the 12 artists who were at different times associated with the short-lived group: Pedro �lvarez, Wifredo Arcay, Mario Carre�o, Salvador Corratg�, Sand� Dari�, Luis Mart�nez Pedro, Alberto Menocal, Jos� M. Mijares, Pedro de Ora�, Jos� �ngel Rosabal, Lol� Soldevilla, and Rafael Soriano. The catalogue features an extensively researched chronology, compiled by art historian Susanna Temkin, tracking the development of the period artistically and politically from 1939 through 1968. New scholarship by Cuban art specialist Abigail McEwen offers an interpretative framework for this group of painters, and a deeper understanding of the forces behind the development of concretism's Cuban strain. A limited edition of 100 copies will be published as well, and will come with one of five signed and numbered prints by Pedro de Ora�. These five unique prints are based on works completed during the height of de Oraa's Concrete period in the 1950s. In contrast to his later works in which forms were modified by expanding and stretching an image taken from an original draft, these works are true to the original drafts created in the 1950s and follow strict principles of Concretism. In keeping with the works from the exhibition Concrete Cuba at David Zwirner in 2015, de Oraa's five limited edition prints remain loyal to the spirit of the decade from which they are inspired.

Revolutionary Horizons
Revolutionary Horizons

Author: Abigail McEwen

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0300216815

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Following the trajectories of two pioneering artist groups, this groundbreaking book explores the development of abstract art, and its political stakes, in 1950s Cuba.

Revolutionary Horizons
Revolutionary Horizons

Author: Abigail McEwen

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-11-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0300221320

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Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimately, revolution, abstract art signaled the country’s cultural worldliness and its purchase within the international avant-garde. This pioneering book offers the first in-depth examination of Cuban art during that time, following the intersecting trajectories of the artist groups Los Once and Los Diez against a dramatic backdrop of modernization and armed rebellion. Abigail McEwen explores the activities of a constellation of artists and writers invested in the ideological promises of abstraction, and reflects on art’s capacity to effect radical social change. Featuring previously unpublished artworks, new archival research, and extensive primary sources, this remarkable volume excavates a rich cultural history with links to the development of abstraction in Europe and the Americas.

The Object of the Atlantic
The Object of the Atlantic

Author: Rachel Price

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-11-30

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0810130130

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The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.

Carmen Herrera
Carmen Herrera

Author: Dana Miller

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 030022186X

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L'artiste native de Cuba Carmen Herrera (née en 1915) peint depuis plus de sept décennies, mais ce n'est que ces dernières années que la reconnaissance pour son travail a projeté l'artiste vers la notoriété internationale. Ce beau volume offre le premier examen soutenu d'elle, depuis le début de sa carrière en 1948 jusqu'en 1978, et s'étend sur les mondes de l'art de La Havane, de Paris et de New York. Les essais considèrent les premières études de l'artiste à Cuba, son implication dans le Salon des Réalités Nouvelles dans le Paris d'après-guerre et sa sortie révolutionnaire de New York. Puis l'ouvrage situe son travail dans le contexte d'un art d'avant-garde latino-américain plus large. Un essai de Dana Miller considère le travail de New York d'Herrera depuis les années 1950 jusque dans les années 1970, lorsque Herrera arrivait et perfectionnait son style de signature. Des photographies familiales personnelles des archives de Herrera enrichissent le récit, et une chronologie traitant de l'intégralité de sa vie et de sa carrière présente des images documentaires supplémentaires. Plus de quatre-vingts œuvres sont illustrées sous forme de plaques de couleur. Ce livre est la représentation la plus étendue des travaux de Herrera à ce jour. (d'après l'éditeur).

A Cuban Cinema Companion
A Cuban Cinema Companion

Author: Salvador Jiménez Murguía

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1538107740

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With the recent shift in Cuba-US relations stemming from the relaxing of travel restrictions and an influx of American visitors, interest in Cuba and its culture has increased substantially. A new emphasis has been placed on the island country’s many cultural and artistic achievements, specifically in film. Cuban cinema is recognized around the world as having produced some of the most celebrated works originating from Latin America—such as Fresa y Chocolate and La Muerte de un Burócrata—as well as many prominent artists—including directors Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Humberto Solás. In A Cuban Cinema Companion, editors Salvador Jimenez Murguía, Sean O’Reilly, and Amanda McMenamin have assembled a collection of essays about more than100 films across six decades, including feature films, documentaries, and animation. These entries also provide information on directors, actresses, and actors of Cuban cinema. Entries range from films like Retrato de Teresa to Buena Vista Social Club and include descriptions of each film’s plot, themes, and critical commentary, as well as comprehensive production details and brief suggestions for further reading. Beginning with the victory of the Cuban revolution—from the first ten years of what is often referred to as Cuba’s “Golden Age” of film to the present—this volume offers readers valuable insights into Cuban history, politics, and culture. An indispensable guide to one of the great world cinemas, A Cuban Cinema Companion will be of interest to students, academics, and the general public alike.