Daños colaterales

Edition dedicated to multifaceted artist Ravenet (b. Spain - d. Cuba) considered an important figure in what is considered the "Historic avant-garde of Cuban plastic arts" and who experimented with multiple art media: canvas and mural painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator, photographer, designer and ceramist. The book reviews the artist's most intimate moments, his artwork and his political and cultural activism through the eyes of his daughter Mariana.

Después de la desintegración de la Unión Soviética, la bancarrota del estado cubano y la globalización de la cultura modificaron los términos del contrato social que la Revolución había establecido con los intelectuales. Sin embargo, poco o nada cambió a nivel político. En Comunidad y cultura en la Cuba postsoviética, De Ferrari atribuye la extraordinaria supervivencia de la Revolución a la naturaleza de los pactos sociales que determinaron la consolidación del estado socialista y determinaron su impronta social y estética. A través de lecturas críticas de un conjunto...

In "States of Exchange," Cuban artist Gerardo Mosquera characterizes the sudden shift that visual artists in his country underwent in the 1980s: "These artists broke with the official ideology of culture imposed by the Cuban regime throughout the 1970s, rejecting its political and nationalist cliches. They did so spontaneously, without benefit of programs, mission statements or manifestos; they simply stopped taking any notice of government guidelines in order to work as they wished, without constraints." This volume is a first-hand account of the development of the Cuban avant-garde--which...