- Caballería
- Cavalry
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 13 1/2 in. (24 × 34.3 cm)
Frame (outer): 16 5/8 × 20 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (42.2 × 52.3 × 4.4 cm)
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Raúl Corrales’s Cavalry records an event at which the nationalization and expropriation of a plantation owned by the United Fruit Company were celebrated by reenacting a famous scene from Cuba’s late 19th-century war for independence from Spain. With reenactments such as this, the triumph of the revolu- tion was linked to a decades-long struggle to shake off the bonds of colonialism. Corrales’s photograph of smiling guerrillas wearing matching straw hats, riding horses, and waving Cuban flags also conjures associations with heroic 19th-century history paintings.
Caballería, de Raúl Corrales, documenta la nacionali- zación y expropiación de una plantación de la United Fruit Company. Para celebrarlo, se recreó un pasaje significativo de la guerra de independencia contra España a finales del siglo XIX. Con escenificaciones como esta, el triunfo de la revolución se presentaba como una continuación de aquella lucha de décadas contra el colonialismo. La fotografía de Corrales, que muestra a los guerrilleros cabalgando sonrientes, agitando banderas cubanas y luciendo sombreros de yarey idénticos, también evoca las pinturas históricas del siglo XIX.
ProvenanceEsther Parada, Saxtons River, Vermont; given to MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil verso upper right: "K C"
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