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- Title
Books to Be Looked At.
- Authors
PRICE, RACHEL
- Abstract
This article explores a trend in contemporary Cuban art that takes the book as its subject and object. It attributes the renewed interest to factors ranging from a changing textual environment in public spaces to the rise of digital content to newly re-discovered traditions from historic and neo-avant-gardes, among others. It first maps out a number of new artworks about books, then turns in the second half to focus on two book-based art projects of particular note: La Maleza, an editorial project by Lester Álvarez, and a series of 2015 interventions into Havana's Fayad Jamís bookstore organized by Yornel Martínez, whose own artworks are also analyzed.
- Subjects
CUBAN art; ART &; literature; BOOKS in art; LITERATURE in art; AVANT-garde (Arts)
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2017, Vol 51, Issue 2, p297
- ISSN
0034-818X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rvs.2017.0031