In the 1920s a new generation of Cuban artists broke with the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro (Academy of San Alejandro) in Havana, and initiated a movement which adapted modern European art and theories to the artistic interpretation of their native land. This study focuses on the work of the so-called vanguardia (vanguard) artists and on their synthesis of modernism and nationalism to affirm a sense of personal and collective identity. / The first part of the dissertation introduces the artists, defines their period of activity (1920s-1940s), and reviews the state of research on early modern Cuban painting. A review of the literature reveals that critics and art historians have emphasized the influence of the School of Paris on the vanguardia painters' styles, and the impact of Cuba's natural and cultural environment on their subject matter. However, the all important relationship between modernism and nationalism in modern Cuban art has not been fully addressed. Moreover, recent interest in the vanguardia painters has concentrated on the work of the individual artists, at the expense of examining their collective contribution to Cuban art and culture. / The main body of the dissertation analyzes the relationship between the art of the vanguardia painters, European modernism, and Cuban nationalism in the second quarter of the twentieth-century. It explores such a relationship in the context of Cuban history and culture, generational ideology, and artists' biographies. The study concludes that the vanguardia painters consciously re-casted and/or invented lasting, if mythical, symbols of national ethos. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-03, Section: A, page: 0648. / Major Professor: Robert Hobbs. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76595 |
| Contributors | Martinez, Juan Antonio., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 299 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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