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“Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey (2016)
Journal Article
Lewthwaite, S. (2017). “Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey. Journal of American Studies, 51(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875816000979

This article examines how contemporary Cuban American artists have experimented with visual languages of trauma to construct an intergenerational memory about the losses of exile and migration. It considers the work of artist Alberto Rey, and his lay... Read More about “Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey.

Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction (2013)
Journal Article
Lewthwaite, S. (in press). Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction. Journal of American Studies, 47(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813000108

This short introduction provides a brief overview of the collection, by addressing the main historiographical and theoretical concerns that unite the individual contributions and by placing the essays in comparative, inter-American and interdisciplin... Read More about Art across frontiers : cross-cultural encounters in America : introduction.