Browse by Subject: Arts

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Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon

In this volume, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows the ways Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in painting, fiction, poetry, music, film, festival, dance, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. They illustrate how Bolívar’s body has been exalted, reimagined, or fragmented in different contexts, taking on a range of meanings to represent the politics and poetics of today’s national bodies.

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Wildman of Rhythm: The Life and Music of Benny Moré

The first English-language biography of the singer known as the Cuban Sinatra

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Embracing Cuba

Stunning photographs from the oft-misunderstood and once-forbidden island

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Cuba: A History in Art, Revised Edition

Offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Cuban art available anywhere

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Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería

The portraiture, sculptures, and photographs in Afro-Cuban Religious Arts offer rare and remarkable glimpses into the rituals and iconography of Espiritismo and Santería.

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Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity

In this book, Kimberly Cleveland analyzes how certain modern and contemporary Brazilian artists visually convey "blackness."

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Maya Architecture: Temples in the Sky

An exploration of Maya civilization through the eyes of an architect.

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Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection

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Latin American Art: Ancient to Modern

152 b&w photographs and 30 color plates trace the development Latin American sculpture, architecture, pottery, painting and more, from pre-columbian times to the