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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 "Volumen I"
• 2 Cuban Influences on the 1980s Generation
• 3 Art within the Revolution
• 4 Art Education in Cuba
• 5 The Generations Following "Volumen I"
• 6 The Individuals
• 7 Cuban Art and Postmodernism- Postscript- Second Postscript- Epilogue: Luis Camnitzer with Rachel Weiss
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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The use of black-and-white rather than color plates accentuates the analytical nature of this study. The emphasis on text, rather than on glossy illustrations, echoes the spare, "make do" efforts of the young artists who have created and developed a well-defined art scene during the Castro regime. The Uruguayan-born artist Camnitzer focuses his study on the ground-breaking exhibition of the group "Volumen I" in 1981. With much firsthand knowledge after many visits to Cuba, Camnitzer places the group of 11 artists, all born in the 1950s, in the context of previous influences, of the newest generation of artists, and of art education and culture in today's Cuba. Making a supreme effort to remain politically unbiased, Camnitzer treats the key issues of the role of art in a socialist nation, the artists' dilemma of individuality versus social commitment, censorship, and access and lack thereof. His direct, almost conversational style makes for an informative and consciousness-raising reading. The artists emerge as individuals. At the same time, their enthusiastic and abundant work reveals the flourishing of a cultural revolution which, Camnitzer seems to claim, has arisen simultaneously because of, and in spite of, the political revolution. His message encourages the artists and cautions the Cuban government to continue nurturing those who, through free expression, "can create culture and not just art objects." Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty.