The Lost Generation / La generacion perdida - Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-Garde / mujeres ceramistas y la vanguardia cubana

An examination of the balance between modernity and tradition in Cuba-s turn-of-the-century artistic evolution. The Lost Generation La generación perdida accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. The modern artistic ceramic movement in Cuba, almost exclusively comprised of women artists (including Amelia Peláez, Mirta García Buch, and María Elena Jubrías), emerged toward the end of the 1940s and continued into the next decade. The ceramicists invited Cuba-s modernist protagonists, including René Portocarrero, Luis Martínez Pedro, and Wifredo Lam, to participate in designing ceramics at the Taller de Santiago de Las Vegas. The workshop thus became a locus for the fermentation of Cuban modernist expression. Juan Miguel Rodríguez de la Cruz, the workshop's proprietor, recognized the artistic value of the ceramicists- production and he, along with the women he hired, encouraged collaboration with their male contemporaries. A symbiotic artis