“Like Fidel at a Rally in Havana”: Warsaw’s Exhibition of Cuban Painting with a Global Political Crisis in the Background (1962)
”Exhibition of Cuban Painting”, created by the National Council for Culture in Cuba and the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, opened on October 9, 1962 at the Central Office of Artistic Exhibitions (CBWA) in Warsaw. Its closing date (October 28, 1962) coincided with the end of the so-ca...
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| Language: | English |
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Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Miejsce |
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| Online Access: | https://miejsce.asp.waw.pl/en/jak-fidel-na-wiecu-w-hawanie/ |
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| Summary: | ”Exhibition of Cuban Painting”, created by the National Council for Culture in Cuba and the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, opened on October 9, 1962 at the Central Office of Artistic Exhibitions (CBWA) in Warsaw. Its closing date (October 28, 1962) coincided with the end of the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis (October 16–28, 1962) – the greatest political crisis in post-World War II history between superpowers in possession of nuclear weapons, caused by the secret deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles by the Soviet Union in Cuba, which posed a threat to US territory. The article seeks to interpret the reception of the exhibition of Cuban art in the Polish People’s Republic, organized within the framework of official international cultural exchange (in the Polish press, the event received several dozen reviews and mentions, which often underlined that the show presented the “art of a fighting island”), against the background of the international crisis during the Cold War. The case study proposed here sits within modern international research on the histories of exhibitions that finds its starting point in the question of their simultaneity or non-simultaneity in relation to the periodizations established in global political history. |
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| ISSN: | 2956-4158 |