“Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey

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“Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey

This article examines how contemporary Cuban American artists have experimented with visual languages of trauma to construct an intergenerational memory about the losses of exile and migration. It considers the work of artist Alberto Rey, and his layering of individual loss onto other, traumatic epi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lewthwaite, Stephanie
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2017
Subjects:	Alberto Rey; Cuban American art; Cuban diaspora; visual culture; memory; trauma; exile; migration; balseros
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45279/

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