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Concrete and Countryside Book Event with author Carmelo Esterrich

National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture 3015 West Division Street, Chicago

Come and join Columbia College Chicago Associate Professor Carmelo Esterrich in a presentation of his new book CONCRETE AND COUNTRYSIDE (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). The book examines the response of the arts in Puerto Rico to the modernization and urbanization of the island during the momentous 1950s. Dr. Esterrich examines a wide range of cultural texts--newsreels, songs, graphic arts, […]

Free