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El muro = the wall

Title
El muro = the wall / Eduardo Hernández Santos.
ISBN
9780981604411
0981604412
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Publication
Florence, MA : Red Trillium Press, [2009]
Physical Description
15 unnumbered leaves (chiefly folded) : chiefly black and white portraits ; 23 x 35 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Bailey 1190: Spiral bound. From the library of Laura Bailey.
Notes
Portraits juxtaposed with lines taken from the poem "La isla en peso" by Virgilio Piñera.
Afterword in Spanish and English.
Summary
Eduardo Hernández Santos's "El muro" is a composite chronicle of late-night life at Havana's utmost limit of the city: the seafront wall, popularly know as the Malecón. El muro is a significant visual source of constantly thwarted gay nightlife in Havana, but above all it is a social document about the members of a historical underclass emerging from hiding to contest efforts to control their lifestyles, to proclaim their normality and their non-conformity of the status quo. El muro is ten black and white triptych photographs, with an introduction by the artist. An essay by the young and insightful Cuban ethnographer and researcher Abel Sierra accompanies the complex mosaic of human experience and emotions.
Variant and related titles
Wall
Other formats
Online version: Hernández Santos, Eduardo. Muro. Deluxe edition
Format
Books
Language
Spanish; English
Added to Catalog
September 25, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and glossary.
Genre/Form
Specimens.
Portraits.
Artists' books.
Also listed under
Piñera, Virgilio, 1912-1979, author.
Red Trillium Press, publisher.
United States Massachusetts Florence.
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