This lithograph by Frédéric Mialhe, a French-born Cuban artist, shows smoke rising from plantations near Havana, Cuba. It’s an example Dr. Asiel Sepúlveda will use in his lecture Thursday on Industrial Revolution-era Cuban art.
October 31, 2024
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CWU to host lecture on plantation imagery in Cuba
ELLENSBURG — The Central Washington University Department of Art + Design will host a lecture by art historian Dr. Asiel Sepúlveda on Thursday, according to an announcement from the university. Titled “The Plantation’s Smokescreens: Art and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Cuba,” the talk will explore how lithographic artists crafted new ways of seeing the Cuban landscape during the 19th century.