Rafael Soriano : the artist as mystic = el artista como místico / Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta, editor ; translators: Vicente Echerri & Ileana Fuentes.
Publisher:
McMullen Museum of ArtBoston College,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
181 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 x 31 cm
Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, January 30-June 4, 2017; the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, June 29-October 1, 2017; and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, October 28, 2017-January 28, 2018. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Cuban painter Rafael Soriano (1920-2015) was an acclaimed master of geometric abstraction and a global figure in the twentieth-century art world. His work resonated with such international artists of Latin American origin as Roberto Matta, Rufino Tamayo, and Wifredo Lam. As a result of the revolution in Cuba in 1959, Soriano left the country in 1962 for the United States. The effect of the Cuban revolution on his art as well as his aesthetics in general are the focus of this book, an unprecedented examination of his entire oeuvre. Featuring more than ninety paintings, pastels, and drawings, this bilingual English-Spanish catalog begins with a contextual analysis of Soriano's relationship to the Cuban avant-garde and his position within the emerging mid-century modernists. Essays then trace his evolving styles, examining his work through the lens of surrealism and European and Latin American transnational aesthetics. The idea of exile and struggle is a leitmotif and is framed within questions of transcendence and spirituality.
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