Arts and Literature of Cuba

Index

abstract style, 49–50, 51, 55–56, 57 Academia San Alejandro (Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes), 43, 45 , 46, 50 academic art, 43–45 Afro-Cuban themes, 25–28, 29, 49 Afro-Cubanism movement, 12–16 The Agüero Sisters (García), 68 abstract style, 49–50, 51, 55–56, 57 academic, 43–45 avant-garde movement, 42, 46, 50, 57 concretism, 55–56 cubism, 42, 46, 48–49 modernism, 42, 44 , 46, 50–51, 53–55 primitivism, 42, 46, 48 and sculpture, 42 , 51–53, 55, 58 socialist realism, 56–57 surrealism, 42, 46, 48–49 Así en la paz como en la guerra (Cabrera Infante), 33 avant-garde movement, 42, 46, 50, 57 Bardou, Miguel Arias, 45 Barnet, Miguel, 35–36, 37, 39 Batista, Fulgencio, 17, 20, 29, 55, 56, 65 Before Night Falls (Arenas), 63, 64 Bermúdez, Cundo, 50, 51 bestiary, 6, 17 Biografría de un cimarrón (Barnet), 36, 37, 39 Boom generation, 28, 31 Alvarez de Caña, Pablo, 19 Arenas, Reinaldo, 61–63 Arrechea, Alexandre, 58 art

Cabrera, Lydia, 25–28 Cabrera Infante, Guillermo, 22, 23, 27, 32–35 “Caín,” 33 See also Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Canción de Rachel (Barnet), 39 Cárdenas, Agustín, 55 Carpentier, Alejo, 27, 28–29, 31–32 Los Carpinteros (artists), 58 Carreño, Mario, 50, 51, 56 “Carta de Amor al Rey Tut-Ank-Amen” (Loynaz), 19 Casanovas, Martí, 46 Castillo, Marco Antonio, 58 Castro, Fidel, 17, 20, 21, 27, 29, 33–34, 35, 54 , 56, 57, 61, 62, 65 and the Mariel boatlift, 63–64 Celestino antes del alba (Arenas), 62, 64 Cervantes Prize, 20, 27 classical period, modernist, 53–55 See also modernism concretism, 55–56 Craven, David, 55 Cuban Revolution, 17, 19, 20–22, 29, 33–34, 56–57, 64–65 Cuban Revolutionary Party, 9–10 Cuban Union of Writers and Artists (UNEAC), 17, 21, 37 , 56, 68 cubism, 42, 46, 48–49 Cuentos negros de Cuba (Cabrera), 26 communism, 56–57, 59, 65 Communist Party, 17, 59

Darié, Sandú, 56 Los Diez (artists), 55–56 “Dos patrias” (Martí), 12

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