Review: L’Avana déco: Arte, cultura, società

Book Review| September 01 2023 Review: L’Avana déco: Arte, cultura, società Alessandra Anselmi L’Avana déco: Arte, cultura, società Rome: Gangemi, 2020, 447 pp., 540 color and 140 b/w illus. €80 (paper), ISBN 9788849238600 Jean-François Lejeune Jean-François Lejeune University of Miami Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2023) 82 (3): 342–344. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.342 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jean-François Lejeune; Review: L’Avana déco: Arte, cultura, società. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2023; 82 (3): 342–344. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2023.82.3.342 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Although Alessandra Anselmi’s early scholarship in cultural history centered on the reciprocal cultural and artistic exchanges between Rome and Madrid and the Hispano-American world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, her evolving research led her to Havana, as if, as many have remarked, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico formed a homogeneous realm. In fact, Anselmi may have grown up thinking about Cuba, as her father, the late Alessandro Anselmi (1934–2013), a noted architect and professor of architecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza, participated as an Italian delegate to the VII Congress of the International Union of Architects held in Havana in 1963. Anselmi’s magnum study of art deco in Havana, written and published in Italian under the title L’Avana déco: Arte, cultura, società, is the remarkable result of her detailed, generous, and patiently constructed research on the Cuban capital, its architecture, culture, and... You do not currently have access to this content.