Revolution of Forms : Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools
Editorial Reviews In These Times Cuba's National Art Schools, commissioned in 1961 by Fidel Castro and Che Guevera, are striking architectural examples of the Revolution's early idealistic promise-and its later Sovietized ossification. The sensuous buildings were disavowed as bourgeois in 1965, and abandoned to the jungle. Interest in the schools has revived in recent years, through, and efforts to rehabilitate them are underway. Juliet Barclay, The Architectural Review, April 1999 Loomis poignantly charts the fledgling Revolution's attempt at a fresh definition of Cubanidad and its suffocation by Soviety centralization...Rigorously researched, elegantly written, and sensitively illustrated, the book is imbued, through the beauty and strangeness of its story, with the flavour of a magic realist novel. Revolution of Forms : Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools
Revolution of Forms : Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools,John loomis,John A.,Princeton Arch,1568981570,Architecture,Art schools,Caribbean & West Indies - General,Communism and architecture,Cuba,Havana,History - General,Organic architecture,Public Buildings Architecture,Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings,Architecture / General,Garatti, Vittorio,Gottardi, Roberto,Porro, Ricardo
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