The Lost Generation La Generacin Perdida: Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-Garde Mujeres Ceramistas Y La Vanguardia Cubana (Thompson Goizueta Elizabeth)(Paperback)

An examination of the balance between modernity and tradition in Cuba's turn-of-the-century artistic evolution. The Lost Generation La generacin perdida accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. The modern artistic ceramic movement in Cuba, almost exclusively comprised of women artists (including Amelia Pelez, Mirta Garca Buch, and Mara Elena Jubras), emerged toward the end of the 1940s and continued into the next decade. The ceramicists invited Cuba's modernist protagonists, including Ren Portocarrero, Luis Martnez Pedro, and Wifredo Lam, to participate in designing ceramics at the Taller de Santiago de Las Vegas. The workshop thus became a locus for the fermentation of Cuban modernist expression. Juan Miguel Rodrguez de la Cruz, the workshop's proprietor, recognized the artistic value of the ceramicists' production
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