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AfroCuba
Works on Paper, 1968-2003
Judith Bettelheim
AfroCuba focuses on the rich AfroCuban influence in the visual art of Cuba during the post-revolutionary period. It represents the first opportunity for U.S. audiences to appreciate nearly four decades of artistic production shaped by the influential forces of AfroCuban religion, social struggle, questions of cultural heritage, and personal and diplomatic relations with Africa.
Representing the work of twenty-six artists residing in Havana and Santiago de Cuba, AfroCuba includes sixty prints and drawings masterfully executed in a variety of techniques, among them lithography, collagraph, woodcut, screen print, and ink and crayon drawing.
The book includes essays by curator and art historian Judith Bettelheim, an expert on the African diaspora, with a foreword by Keith Morrison, an essay by Cuban artist and curator Alexis Esquivel, excerpts from David Mateo's Looking at Cuban Printmaking (Havana 2001), and a technical glossary by Sylvia Solochek Walters. Cuban artist and critic Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernández) served as curatorial consultant.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
- Judith Bettelheim
Foreword
- Keith Morrison
Introductory Essays
Introduction: Judith Bettelheim
A Look at Cuban Printmaking: David Mateo
Queloide, la cicatriz dormida (Keloid, The Dormant Scar): Alexis Esquivel
Catalog in Six Chapters: Plates and Commentary
- Judith Bettelheim
Chapter 1 Religion
- Rafael Queneditt Morales
- Belis Ayon
- Rafael Zarza
- Manuel Mendive
- Choco (Eduardo Roca Salasar)
- Marta Perez Bravo
Chapter 2 Grupo Antillano
- Rafael Queneditt Morales
- Ramon Haiti Eduardo
- Arnaldo Larrinaga
Chapter 3 Angola
- Nelson Dominquez Cedeno
- Choco (Eduardo Roca Salasar)
- Rafael Zarza
Chapter 4 Portraits
- Jose Julian Aguilera
- Raul Martinez
- Raul Alfaro Torres
- Diana Balboa
Chapter 5 The Idealized Women of Santiago
- Jorge Knight Vera
Chapter 6 Contemporary Artists
- Alexis Esquivel
- Elio Rodriguez Valdes
- Ibrahim Miranda
- Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy
Special Section: Belkis Ayon
Glossary of Technical Terms
- Sylvia Solochek Walters
Appendices
Appendix I: Bibliography for Introduction
Appendix II: Art Schools (a selected text)
Endnotes
Checklist of the Exhibition
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Pub Date:
2005
ISBN:
PAPER:
0-295-98476-7
9780295984766
Price:
Paper: $24.95
Subject Listing:
African American Studies
Bibliographic information:
80 pp., 30 color illus., glossary, 8'" x 9.5"
Distributed for:
San Francisco State University Gallery
Territorial rights:
world
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