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Description for Iconocracia
Hardback. Offers the work of Cuban photographers of different generations. Num Pages: 240 pages, 100 colour. BIC Classification: 1KJC; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 882.
Iconocracia uses photography to bring together approximately thirty creators of Cuban art from several generations who, despite their wide-ranging differences in biography, aesthetics and even politics, coincide in challenging what has been assimilated as Cuban photography and disseminated as such. The book is a collection of work by a series of artists who have managed to take in and process iconography with the steadfast goal of building, more than just an image, but a different imagery altogether from their individual positions and particular viewpoints. However, it also explores the very limits of photography as an act: the text by ... Read more
Iconocracia uses photography to bring together approximately thirty creators of Cuban art from several generations who, despite their wide-ranging differences in biography, aesthetics and even politics, coincide in challenging what has been assimilated as Cuban photography and disseminated as such. The book is a collection of work by a series of artists who have managed to take in and process iconography with the steadfast goal of building, more than just an image, but a different imagery altogether from their individual positions and particular viewpoints. However, it also explores the very limits of photography as an act: the text by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Turner Publicaciones, S.L. Spain
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Madrid, Spain
ISBN
9788416354733
SKU
V9788416354733
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Ref
99-15
About Ivan de La Nuez
Ivan de la Nuez, an essayist, art critic and exhibition curator born in Havana in 1964, has been the head of the Cultural Activities Department at the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona (2009-2011) and the Exhibitions Director at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge (2000-2009). He collaborates with Babelia, El Pais newspaper's cultural insert, as well as different magazines and ... Read more
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