Interviews and Books

  • Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers

    Jorge J. E. Gracia, Lynette Bosch, and Isabel Alvarez Borland
    ed.State University of New York Press
    Albany, New York 2007

    This is a volume of interviews with introductory essays and samples of the work of the artists, writers and philosophers.

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  • Complicit! Contemporary American Art & Mass Culture

    Art Museum
    University of Virginia
    Charlottesville, Virginia
    September 1- October 29, 2006 

    Exhibition website

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  • ReMembering Cuba:
    Legacy of a Diaspora

    by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera
    University of Texas Press
    Austin, Texas
    2005

    The testimonies gathered in this book offer over one hundred perspectives on the Cuban diaspora and on what it means to be Cuban in exile. Through narratives, interviews, creative writings, letters, journal entries, recipes, photographs, and paintings, Cubans from various waves of the migration and their descendants piece together a complex mosaic of the exile experience and diasporic identity.

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  • Cuban-American Art in Miami:
    Exile, Identity and the Neo-Baroque

    by Lynette M.F. Bosch
    Ashgate Publishing- Lund Humphries
    London, England
    2004

    Cuban-American Art in Miami analyses the impact of Cuban exiles on Miami's cultural explosion, from 1959 to the present day. It is the first book to create an historical record of the circumstances, artists, venues and people who made Miami the important artistic centre that it is today, and a key place for artistic exchange between the US, Latin America, the Caribbean and Western Europe.

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  • Teaching Workshop Video
    from Solo Exhibition

    By Barbara Lattanzi
    Castellani Museum
    Niagara University, NY 1995

  • TWO SLICES: Paintings by Alberto Rey

    Documentary Video by Brooke Maroldi
    (18 minutes)
    1990