Tonel: Lessons of Solitude

Tonel; Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda et al.

ISBN 10: 0888656165 / ISBN 13: 9780888656162

Published by Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Canadian Council for the Arts, 2001

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Softcover, 108 pages, in English and Spanish, very good condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tonel: Lessons of Solitude
• Publisher: Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery and Canadian Council for the Arts
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0888656165
• ISBN 13: 9780888656162
• Binding: Soft cover
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Synopsis

When Cuban artist Tonel applied to art school as a young man he was rejected, told that his drawings were too simple, too much like caricatures. He enrolled instead at the University of Havana, becoming a renowned scholar of culture and art history - but he never stopped making his cynical, keenly ironic two and three dimensional art. His pieces offer insight on the human condition to all of us, but their meaning in Cuba is particularly potent, showing useless limbs or a phallus lying limply on the ground, unable to fulfill its function. A rare look at the still mysterious island just 90 miles from Florida, guided by one of Cuba's leading artists and critics. This book is an Exhibition catalog, written in English and Spanish text, dimension: 8 x 101/2 inches, and includes 66 b&w and 26 color reproductions.

Language Notes

Text: English, Spanish