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Utopian Territories : New Art from Cuba

Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Juan Antonio Marco Molina, Scott Watson, Keith Wallace, Manuel Piña, Sandra A. Ceballos Olalla, René Francisco, Eduardo Ponjuan

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A bilingual catalogue documenting a major exhibition of contemporary Cuban art presented in galleries throughout Vancouver. Includes interpretive essays by four curators (two Cuban and two Canadian) in which aesthetic, ideological, political and sociological aspects of the twenty-three artists' works - drawings, sculptural installations, photographs and performances - are considered in light of the exhibition's central themes: utopia, national identity, and migration. Includes statements by selected artists. List of works. Biographical notes. Circa 33 bibl. ref.

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A bilingual catalogue documenting a major exhibition of contemporary Cuban art presented in galleries throughout Vancouver. Includes interpretive essays by four curators (two Cuban and two Canadian) in which aesthetic, ideological, political and sociological aspects of the twenty-three artists' works - drawings, sculptural installations, photographs and performances - are considered in light of the exhibition's central themes: utopia, national identity, and migration. Includes statements by selected artists. List of works. Biographical notes. Circa 33 bibl. ref.

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A bilingual catalogue documenting a major exhibition of contemporary Cuban art presented in galleries throughout Vancouver. Includes interpretive essays by four curators (two Cuban and two Canadian) in which aesthetic, ideological, political and sociological aspects of the twenty-three artists' works - drawings, sculptural installations, photographs and performances - are considered in light of the exhibition's central themes: utopia, national identity, and migration. Includes statements by selected artists. List of works. Biographical notes. Circa 33 bibl. ref.

Key concepts: Exhibition, Utopia, Ideology, Identity (music), Politics, Art, Contemporary art, Visual arts

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