The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia
The Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia
Toward a Theory of Collecting Cuban-American Art
Art historian Lynette M. F. Bosch concentrates on the first generation of postrevolutionary exile artists, which she calls the “Cuban-American Exile Vanguardia,” who arrived in the United States between 1959 and 1980. Bosch emphasizes that many members of this diasporic generation explore “identity, hybridity, transnationalism, and the emotional and experiential territory of exile.” She also argues that these artists recast traditional notions of lo cubano (Cubanness) as lo cubanoamericano (Cuban-Americanness) through visual representations of “life on the hyphen,” that is, the blending of Cuban and American cultural practices. Examples of these hybrid exile artists include Humberto Calzada, Jake Fernandez, and Arturo Rodríguez.
Keywords: Cuban-American Exiles, Cuban-American art, Art, Identity, Hybridity, Transnationalism, Humberto Calzada, Jake Fernandez, Arturo Rodríguez
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