Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 5, 2017 - May 21, 2017 ; and at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, November 11, 2017 - March 18, 2018. "CIFO | Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation published this book on the occasion of the exhibition Adiós Utopia : Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950, a project conceived by CIFO Europa | Cisneros Fontanals Fundación Para Las Artes and organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis."--Colophon. Issued in slipcase. Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401). "Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950" : March 5-May 21, 2017, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States. "Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950" : November 11, 2017-March 18, 2018, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Contents:
Adiós Utopia : Art In Cuba Since 1950. How to tell a story without damaging it / Ella Fontanals-Cisneros -- Ephiphany, Drum and Coca Cola : The Present and Past of the Utopic in Cuban Art / Antonio Eligio (Tonel) -- Performing Revolution : From Volumen Uno to Memoria de la postguerra / Rachel Weiss -- Tomorrow Was Another Day / Iván de la Nuez -- The 50s and 60s in Cuban Art : Two Decades of Essences and Revolutions / Elsa Vega -- Chronology 1950-1969 -- Art and Utopia 1970 to 1990 : Two Decades in War / Gerardo Mosquera -- Chronology 1970-1989 -- Text for an Adiós : Utopian Art on a Downhill Course / René Francisco -- Chronology 1990-2015 -- Bringing Adiós Utopia to Museum Audiences in the United States / Olga Viso, Gary Tinterow -- Adiós Utopia : Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 -- 1/ Abstraction: Universalism and Artistic Language -- 2/ Cult and Deconstruction of the Revolutionary Nation -- 3/ Poster Art -- 4/ Salomón's Wisdom -- 5/ The Imposition of Words: Discourse, Rhetoric and MEdia Controls -- 6/ Sea, Borders, Exile -- 7/ Inverted Utopias -- LIst of Works -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments.
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