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A modernist regime : Cuban mid-century design / Abel González Fernández and Laura J. Mott with Andrew Satake Blauvelt and Andrew Ruys de Perez.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Rizzoli Electra, a Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. ; Bloomfield Hills, MI : in association with Cranbrook Art Museum, 2024
©2024
Description
239 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color), portraits ; 31 cm
Details
Subject(s)
Design
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Cuba
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20th century
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Exhibitions
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Furniture, Midcentury modern
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Cuba
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20th century
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Exhibitions
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Furniture
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Cuba
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20th century
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Exhibitions
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Furniture
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Cuba
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20th century
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Curator
González Fernández, Abel
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Mott, Laura
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Blauvelt, Andrew, 1964-
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Contributor
González Fernández, Abel
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Mott, Laura
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Ruys de Perez, Andrew
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Editor
Blauvelt, Andrew, 1964-
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Ruys de Perez, Andrew
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Publisher
Cranbrook Art Museum
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Organizer
Cranbrook Art Museum
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Host institution
Cranbrook Art Museum
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Exhibition catalogs
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Summary note
"This exhibition is the first museum presentation on Cuban mid-century design anchored by an under-acknowledged collection of furniture and furnishings, examples of which have not been exhibited off the island. Focused on the decades immediately following the Cuban Revolution (1959), A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Modern Design presents a small but prolific cohort of artists, designers, and architects who responded to the demands of a newly centralized economy, including the material constraints imposed by ensuing embargoes, popular demands for more equitable access to goods, and initial excitement about the role modern design could play in shaping a new society. The exhibition includes the pioneering work of designers such as Clara Porset and the furniture produced through the Dujo brand and its successor line EMPROVA, led by Gonzalo Córdoba and María Victoria Caignet. In the 1960s, Dujo continued the trajectory of pre-revolutionary mid-century design to produce unique pieces that featured indigenous cultural references and materials, such as local woods and fibers, and utilized the country's skilled carpentry workshops. By the mid-1970s, the EMPROVA line of furniture and furnishings utilized modular designs to help fulfill growing domestic demand. The exhibition also features designs and prototypes created by the Light Industry Group led by designers Reinaldo Togores, María Teresa Muníz Riva, Eva Bjõrkland, and Heriberto Duverger, who along with others explored contemporary furniture intended for mass production with an emphasis on modularity, utilizing new techniques and technologies, such as particleboard and flat pack assembly, embracing a design-for-all ethos. Rounding out the exhibition are a presentation of remarkable posters created for OSPAAAL (the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America), as well as examples of modern architecture that emerged after the Revolution--which helped establish Cuba's presence on the international stage. Whether through architecture, graphic design, or furniture, A Modernist Regime: Cuban Mid-Century Design is a fascinating story of how modernism was transformed through its contact with capitalist, socialist, and communist economies by negotiating the local and the global; untangling fact from propaganda; and understanding the forces of innovation and limitation on design." -- Cranbrook Art Museum exhibition page.
Notes
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition A Modernist Regime organized by Cranbook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and curated by Abel González Fernández and Laura J. Mott with Andrew Satake Blauvelt and Andrew Ruys de Perez"--Colophon.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 15-September 22, 2024.
Contents
Foreword : a modernist regime / Andrew Satake Blauvelt
Introduction and acknowledgments / Laura J. Mott
A modernist regime : Cuban mid-century design / Abel González Fernández
Clara Porset
Contemporary interior decoration : its adaption to the tropics / Clara Porset
Gonzalo Córdoba : Dujo Muebles and EMPROVA
Guamá
Becoming international : importing modernism, exporting revolution / Andrew Satake Blauvelt
OSPAAL
Raúl Martinez : quiet queerness in the revolutionary roar
Coppelia ice cream parlor
The National Schools of Art
Expo 67
Félix Beltrán
The ministry of light industry and the ten-million-ton sugar harvest
Ministry of light industry manifesto, 1971
The light industry group : an interview with Reinaldo Togores and María Teresa Muñiz Riva
Towards a Cuban industrial design, 1971 : the ministry of light industry
To design the future : conversations about Havana's new industrial design school, 1971
La casa oruga (the caterpillar house)
Ahora O Nunca : a contemporary lens on Cuban mid-century design / Laura J. Mott
Contributors.
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Other title(s)
Cuban mid-century design
ISBN
9780847831401
084783140X
OCLC
1428570917
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