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Book Review
L’Avana déco: Arte cultura società
2022
Overview
The Cuban historian and critic Alejandro de la Fuente is fond of citing José Veigas's disparaging claim that \"Cuba has a multitude of competent art critics and curators, but... [few with] any serious interest in history\" (see, for example, his review of Abigail McEwen, Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba, NWiG 2018), and in that sense, Anselmi's new book is a very much needed and welcome breath of fresh air for historical scholarship on Havana's art, architecture, culture, and society in the first half of the twentieth century. [...]ĽAvana déco can be seen as two projects in one, the first being a richly illustrated and penetrating inquiry on the cultural life of Havana and the influence of Art Deco on all creative disciplines and levels of society. If Art Deco in Cuba has been largely overlooked or dismissed by historians and critics alike, then Alessandra Anselmi reminds us that the Art Deco architecture and monuments of Havana are in fact an integral part of the city and its marvelous cultural identity, and that they deserve our greatest attention, care, and respect.
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Brill,KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
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