Adiós Utopia memorializes the driving utopian conceit of contemporary Cuban art, its galleries a testament to the credulity of this dream.
Abigail McEwen
Abigail McEwen is associate professor of Latin American art history at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her book Revolutionary Horizons: Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba (Yale University Press, 2016) describes the visual strategies of the vanguardia and the politics of Cuban abstraction.
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A Pioneer and Champion of Mid-20th-Century Cuban Modernism
Loló Soldevilla, an artist and catalyzing presence in Havana during the 1950s, presents a fascinating figure through whom to revisit this decade and the phenomenon of Concrete Cuban art.