Adiós utopia
Subtitle: art in Cuba since 1950
By: editors, Ana Clara Silva, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa ; curators, René Francisco, Gerardo Mosquera, Elsa Vega
Contributors: Vega Dopico, Elsa, curator; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Walker Art Center
Publisher: Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Miami, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780692820735; 9788494666308
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Cuban Art; Exhibitions; Art and society; History; Art and revolutions
Other titles: Art in Cuba since 1950
Notes: "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.

"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.

Text in English.

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.
Table of contents: title: Adiós Utopia : Art In Cuba since 1950. How to tell a story without damaging it / Ella Fontanals-Cisneros; title: Ephiphany, drum and Coca Cola : the present and past of the Utopic in Cuban art / Antonio Eligio (Tonel); title: Performing revolution : from Volumen Uno to Memoria de la postguerra / Rachel Weiss; title: Tomorrow was another day / Iván de la Nuez; title: The 50s and 60s in Cuban art : two decades of essences and revolutions / Elsa Vega; title: Chronology 1950-1969; title: Art and Utopia 1970 to 1990 : two decades in war / Gerardo Mosquera; title: Chronology 1970-1989; title: Text for an adiós : Utopian art on a downhill course / René Francisco; title: Chronology 1990-2015; title: Bringing Adiós Utopia to museum audiences in the United States / Olga Viso, Gary Tinterow; title: Adiós Utopia : dreams and deceptions in Cuban art since 1950; title: 1 / Abstraction: universalism and artistic language; title: 2 / Cult and deconstruction of the revolutionary nation; title: 3 / Poster art; title: 4 / Salomón's wisdom; title: 5 / The imposition of words : discourse, rhetoric and media controls; title: 6 / Sea, borders, exile; title: 7/ Inverted Utopias; title: LIst of works; title: About the authors; title: Acknowledgments.