Islands in other maps I Yolanda Wood

Mots clés :
Art contemporain, Caraïbe, Géographie, Insularité, île, carte, représentation géographique

The map of the islands in the Caribbean Sea is a visual representation of a fragmented geography. The peculiar shapes of the island territories create visual poetry out of the unique cartography of the Antilles. Even though each island is isolated in its archipelago or in itself, the Caribbean map counteracts the insular inevitability of dispersion and lack of communication thanks to territorial proximity, without ignoring the complex regional issues of interconnectivity between the islands and between the islands and the continent….

Biography

Yolanda Wood Pujols was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1950.
The recipient of History of Art (1974) and a Doctorate of Art (1993) degrees, she is a professor, researcher and art critic.
Ms. Wood is a tenured professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of Havana. She is the founder of the History of Caribbean Art program at the University of Havana (1985).

Yolanda Wood has participated in numerous national and international symposiums and has been published in many specialized journals. Her most important publications include: De la plástica cubana y caribeña (Letras Cubanas, 1990) and Artistas del Caribe hispano en Nueva York (Letras Cubanas, 1998), Artes Plásticas del Caribe: Praxis y contexto (La Habana, 2000), L’Art de La Caraïbe T 1 (Fondation Culture Création, 2000), Proyectos de artistas cubanos en los años treinta (Editorial Letras Cubanas, La Habana 2007).

She has made several study and research trips to Europe and America, and has given lectures and conferences in Mexico, Valencia, Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique and elsewhere.

She has taken on various academic responsibilities, such as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Literature at the University of Havana and Vice-President of the Higher Institute of Art in Cuba. Between 2001 and 2006, she was appointed Cuban Cultural Advisor in France. She is presently the Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies of the Casa de las Americas of Cuba and of the Anales del Caribe de la Casa de las Americas Review. She continues to teach Caribbean art at the University of Havana and other university centers in the country.

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This text is an extract from Islas del Caribe: naturaleza-arte-sociedad (Yolanda Wood) 
UH editor, Facultad de Artes y Letras, Havana University, 2012

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