Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer

Exposición / The Wolfsonian - Florida international University (FIU) / 1001 Washington Avenue / Miami Beach, Florida, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
07 jun de 2019 - 02 feb de 2020

Inauguración:
07 jun de 2019

Organizada por:
The Wolfsonian - Florida international University (FIU)

Artistas participantes:
Conrado Massaguer

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Etiquetas
Caricatura  Caricatura en Florida  Dibujo  Dibujo en Florida  Ilustracion  Ilustracion en Florida  Pintura  Pintura en Florida 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

With his biting political satire, celebrity caricatures, and magazine and advertising illustrations, graphic artist Conrado Walter Massaguer (1889–1965) helped shape the visual culture of his native Cuba between the 1920s and 1950s. This installation of works recently gifted to The Wolfsonian Library by Vicki Gold Levi will bring forth Massaguer’s legacy through dozens of works, from images of the “New Woman” flapper ideal (the so-called “Massa-girls”) in his magazine Social to depictions of tropical paradise for the Cuban Tourist Commission. Massaguer’s transnational reach will be shown in his covers for Collier’s and Life, while cartoons of visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars will reveal how he rubbed shoulders with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, and the King of Spain—all evidence of an artist at the center of Havana’s cosmopolitan culture in the decades before the Cuban Revolution.

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