Interviews and Books

  • The Memories of Others: Ana Menéndez and Alberto Rey

    Isabel Alvarez Borland,Review 78: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 1743-0666, Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 11 – 20, Routledge Publishing, Oxford, UK 2009

    This issue of Review focuses on U.S. Latino culture. Review 78 is the second part of a two-issue project that has explored immigration and culture in the Americas. It focuses on first, second, and subsequent generations of immigrant writers whose development has largely taken place within the United States.

  • 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 Videofrom 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

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