Utopia/Post-Utopia

Conceptual Photography and Video from Cuba

By Helaine Posner & Eugenio Valdés Figueroa

Subjects: Art
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781438431246, 63 pages, December 2003

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Table of contents

Acknowledgments
Neil C. Trager and Helaine Posner

Essays

Utopia / Post-Utopia
Helaine Posner

The Other Face of Cuban Photography
Eugenio Valdés Figueroa

Selected Works from the Exhibition
Checklist of the Exhibition
Selected Bibliography

Features the works of nine photographers and video artists on the cutting edge of the Cuban art scene.

Description

This illustrated exhibition catalogue includes the work of nine photographers and video artists who are on the cutting edge of the Cuban art scene: Tania Bruguera, Raúl Cordero, Carlos Garaicoa, Luis Gómez, Ernesto Leal, Elsa Mora, René Peña, Manuel Piña, and Sandra Ramos. Although their images reflect very specific experiences, this specificity infuses their work with universal relevance, dramatizing how art can, through images that are both poetic and provocative, address universal issues of personal identity, dislocation, and place. Also included are essays by guest curator Helaine Posner and art critic Eugenio Valdés Figueron that examine each of the featured artist's works.