(1912 - 1980)
Doctora en Derecho Civil. Periodista destacada, literata y poetisa de intensa vida política, profesora notable. Fue Directora del Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba.
Social Sciences and Humanities
1999 | José Martí: image, critique and art market
Main executives entity: University of Havana (UH)
Main author: Adelaida de Juan.
Summary:

It is a result reached after ten years of research, from which partial results have been unveiled in specialized publications, and that has been awarded the prize of scientific work of the year, by the University of Havana (UH).

The works presents, for the first time, in a coherent and systematized way, an order and opulent analysis of Martí's thought on the work of many creators in plastic arts and architecture, in connection with his appreciations on the market of art - newly born then - and the role of criticism, brilliantly exercised by Martí himself. Therefore, contrary to other partial and incomplete approaches, the author bases her analysis in how, inside Marti's thought, those three elements (creation, art and market) are interrelated to give rise to the modern artistic fact, which is a Teacher's precocious conception that has only been generalized during the second half of the 20th century.

At the same time, the author makes a careful work for the whole and vast Martí's writing, in order to review all her ideas regarding the topic, and she exposes them in connection with his aesthetic thought and the entirety of his thought. Consequently, besides making a contribution in the specific field of history studies and artistic critic, she also makes it in the particular field of Martí's subject, so important for Cuban nation, and in which, undoubtedly, she creates a new path.