Fashioning and Contesting the Olive-Green Imaginary in Cuban Visual Arts
Fashioning and Contesting the Olive-Green Imaginary in Cuban Visual Arts
Sociologist María A. Cabrera Arús dissects the militaristic iconography of the Cuban Revolution and its ironic appropriation by contemporary Cuban artists. Cabrera Arús demonstrates that the celebration of the sartorial guerrilla identity of the 1960s has largely given way to a critical perspective on the epic narrative in the post-Soviet era, which is exemplified by painters like Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas and photographers like José Ángel Toirac. In recent artworks produced in Cuba, the olive-green uniform of the revolutionary army appears more often as a symbol of oppression than as a metaphor for a utopian vision.
Keywords: Militaristic iconography, Art, Photographers, Sartorial guerrilla identity, Cuban Revolution, Post-Soviet era, Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas, José Ángel Toirac
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