Lynette M. F. Bosch & Mark Denaci 
Life Streams [EPUB ebook] 
Alberto Rey’s Cuban and American Art

Life Streams explores the paintings, videos, sculptures, and installations of Alberto Rey, an artist whose work addresses issues of identity, cultural diversity, environmental studies, and global sustainability. As a Cuban-born artist living in western New York State, Rey’s current work emphasizes his involvement with his community and its local landscape, especially its trout streams and their surrounding environment. Through Rey’s travels from his home in the upstate New York village of Fredonia to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and to almost every state in the United States, he has gained an understanding of people, places, flora, and fauna.



This book provides biographical information about Rey and a contextual study of his work. The contributors have written about Rey’s work from perspectives based on cultural studies, identity studies, literary studies, and philosophical studies. Interest in his Cuban and American identities are linked to his interest in global culture and his recent study of fish species and environmental issues. As such, this book reflects current approaches that focus attention on connected cultural issues and contemporary concerns about the environment, conservation, restoration, and preservation. Rey’s work provides a new perspective on these topics as he combines art with activism on a local, regional, national, and international level.

Зміст

Acknowledgments



Foreword


Scott Propeack



Introduction
Life Streams: The Cuban and American Art of Alberto Rey


Lynette M. F. Bosch



1. Alberto Rey: Intersections


Lynette M. F. Bosch

2. The Construction of Identity in Art: Alberto Rey’s Journey


Jorge J. E. Gracia



3. Alberto Rey’s
Balsa Series in the Cuban American Imagination


Isabel Alvarez Borland



4. Absent Presences and the Living Dead: Alberto Rey’s Haunted Aesthetics


Mark Denaci



5. Trout as Form and Symbol


Lynette M. F. Bosch

6. Reading the Waters: Early Works of Influence on the Literature of Fly-Fishing


John Orlock



7.
Biological Regionalism: Scajaquada Creek. Erie County, New York, USA—Artist’s Statement


Alberto Rey



8. Time Submersion: A Portrait of Two Creeks


Sandra Firmin



9. Alberto Rey: Beneath the Surface


Benjamin M. Hickey



10. Conclusion: Bioregionalism and Animal Studies


Lynette M. F. Bosch and Mark Denaci



Biographical Timeline

Locations Investigated by Alberto Rey

Curriculum Vitae

Index

Про автора

Lynette M. F. Bosch is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the coeditor (with Isabel Alvarez Borland) of
Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities, also published by SUNY Press.
Mark Denaci is Associate Professor of Art History at St. Lawrence University.