Picturing Cuba: Art, Culture, and Identity on the Island and in the Diaspora

Picturing Cuba explores the evolution of Cuban visual art and its links to cubanía, or Cuban cultural identity. Featuring artwork from the Spanish colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary periods of Cuban history, as well as the contemporary diaspora, these richly illustrated essays trace the creation of Cuban art through shifting political, social, and cultural circumstances.

Contributors examine colonial-era lithographs of Cuba’s landscape, architecture, people, and customs that portray...