Reviews from the first edition: “Inform[s] the reader of various factors, influences, and historical developments that contributed to the art of Cuba . . . an important resource pertinent to our field’s continued emphasis regarding cultural diversity.”— National Art Education Association News “This very special selection from the Cuban Foundation Collection traces the development and flowering of the arts in Cuba from the 1600s to 1959 and helps to establish a link for Floridians of Cuban heritage with their rich Cuban culture.”—Sandra Mortham, Florida Secretary of State The history of fine art in Cuba began in the colonial period and burst onto the international scene near the end of World War II with a groundbreaking show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Now available in a revised edition, Cuba: A History in Art offers one of the most comprehensive surveys of Cuban art available anywhere.
 Richly illustrated in full color, this volume is the first to present many of the most important Cuban paintings in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach—called the “best of its kind” by Miami El Herald editor Roberto Fabricio. Featuring highlights on permanent exhibition, it includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, genre and abstract works by the most important Cuban painters active between 1725 and 1959. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these masters developed a unique tropical style based on European prototypes. After the First World War, Cuba blossomed with a new vision, full of the color and rhythms of a sophisticated modernism.
 Essays by renowned art historians Gary Libby and Juan Martínez offer a general aesthetic, historical, social, and cultural overview of Cuban art, providing context for their insights on these particular masterpieces. Especially interesting is the explanation of the convergence of cultural and political forces early in the twentieth century that made Havana and Cuba a center of modernism.
 A concise overview of a magnificent artistic tradition, this volume is a must-have addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in how the Americas influenced the history of art.

Cuba: A History in Art

Arts & Photography

Mártinez, Juan A.

Libby,Gary R

History & Criticism

University Press of Florida

A full-color collection of important paintings, drawings, and prints Celebrating Florida: Worksof Art from the Vickers Collection illustrates in full color a generous selection ofpaintings, drawings, and prints by some of the world's most significant artistswho came to Florida from 1823 to 1950 to capture the "Sunshine State." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This book includes works by GeorgeCope, William Glackens, Jane Peterson, Martin Johnson Heade, Herman Herzog,Winslow Homer, George Inness, Frank Shapleigh, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Arrah LeeGaul, and William Aiken Walker. Essays on each artist present an aesthetic,historical, social, and cultural overview designed to illuminate thesignificance of the works of art presented. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Featuringessays by Erik Robinson, former historian at the Museum of Florida History,Tallahassee, and the late Wendell Garrett, former editor of Antiques magazine,and Nicolai Cikovsky, former curator of American and British painting at theNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., this volume helps to situateindividual works in Florida's past. Their essays discuss Florida's history, exploreits society and statehood in 1845, and introduce the Vickers Collection. The newpreface in this paperback edition refreshes readers on the importance of thiscollection. In highlighting and contextualizing these influential works, Celebrating Florida places them withinthe mainstream of American art.

Celebrating Florida: Works of Art from the Vickers Collection (Florida Sesquicentennial S)

Individual Artists

Lots of amazing black &amp; white photographs.

Salon and Picturesque Photography in Cuba, 1860-1920

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Museum of Arts & Sciences

A Treasury of American Art Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Arts

Museum of Arts and Sciences

Richly illustrated in full color, this volume is the first to present many of the most important Cuban paintings in the collection of The Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach—called the “best of its kind” by Miami El Herald editor Roberto Fabricio. It contains the work of 30 Cuban artists and includes an essay on each artist and painting that provides an aesthetic, historical, social, and cultural overview. Of particular interest to Cuban art aficionados are essays by art historians Gary Libby and Juan Martinez, who discuss the rise of a Cuban style, its flowering in the Republican Period from 1902 to 1959, and the convergence of forces that made Havana a center of New World modernism in the early 20th century. Gary Libby also discusses the development of photography as an instrument of commerce and art.

Cuba--A History in Art

Paintings of the landscapes of Florida with essays; beautiful large book with glossy pages

Coast to Coast: The Contemporary Landscape in Florida

The Museum of Arts and Sciences

Fair. No Jacket, front edge taped with patterned teal tape, four small soiled spots on front of yellow cloth hardcover. Thumb print brown spot on page edges that does bleed into the margins of some paintings. Many perfect pages of Florida scenes.

Reflections: Paintings of Florida, 1865-1965: From the Collection of CICI and Hyatt Brown

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