Between The Lines: Arte Cubano: A Reference Guide to Cuban Art Resources at the New York Public Library

Abstract

Cuban artists, despite the scant attention they receive from the Western art world, desire to contribute to the international art scene. These artists, who are particularly aware of their nationality and heritage, have found a way to express a Cuban perspective in their art. The author describes resources related to Cuban art and artists, which may prove challenging to find given Cuban art's poor representation in the academic canon. The bibliographic holdings, located mainly in the New York Public Library's Art and Architecture Collection, include resources representing the following four epochs: 1) Pre-Columbian (before the Spanish conquest of Cuba); 2) Colonial (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries); 3) Modern (turn of the twentieth century); and 4) Contemporary (post-1950s).