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"Dream the Rest"

By Brendan Greaves

"Dream the Rest"

By Brendan Greaves

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Little is known about enigmatic Cuban American cigarmaker and artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos (1891-c. 1960), whose over 800 collages were discovered at a West Philadelphia garage sale in 1983. This manuscript examines Consalvos's collage practice by speculatively tracking its orbit within a constellation of enmeshed contexts: the radical sociopolitical world of Cuban American tabaqueros; the fraught history of U.S.-Cuban relations and associated processes of cultural appropriation and hybridization; the rise of collage as a recursive development within both vernacular and elite or academic expressive culture; Consalvos's potential positioning within the aligned discourses of contemporaneous Euro-American modernist art and poetry (especially Dada, Surrealism, and Pop); the artist's self-declared role as "healer"; and the machinations of the contemporary North American art market.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2008-08-01
Publication Date:
2008-08-01
Publisher:
Lulu.com
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1300178175
ISBN13:
9781300178170
Weight:
654 g
Height:
216 cm
Width:
280 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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