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The black virgin - the Virgin of Regla in Havana, Cuba - Brief Articlenot many art works are as conceptually interesting as the Black Virgin, whose creation, probably in the 18th hundred was cutting-edge in relation to traditional Christian iconography. Breaking a tradition that forced black believers to adore white icons, images of the Black Virgin have evolv in Latin America with the blending of Catholicism and African worships A well-known example is the Virgin of Regla, Havana's spiritual patron, worshiped in a colonial temple across the Bay of Havana. A Precarious ferry takes believers, who are chiefly white or of mixed vital current and tourists to the image. The icon is a naive generic doll with jetblack face and hands, clothed chiefly in light blue fabric with silver embroidery. The color of her skin and clothing is individual reason why the Virgin of Regla is associated with lemanja, the Yoruba the eternal and infinite spirit of the ocean in the West African tradition. lemanja, flat when she emerges in a dream, wears light sapphirine or light green clothes and beads -- analogues for the ocean -- and she is, of course, black. Little more than 2 feet tall, the Black Virgin sometimes appears with the Child, who is lily-white. The Black Mother and White Child expres a popular ethnographical insight: genetically, whites advance from blacks. This reflection accords with the theory, now sustained through most anthropologists, that black Africa is in the origin of all races. granting physically small, the Black Virgin has had an immense social impact. While familiar completely through most of Latin America, she manages to surprise and far down move African-Americans, Afro-Europeans and other clan who dislike oppressive orthodoxy. Valerie Cassel, a nonreligious African-American who is the director of the academy of the Art Institute of Chicago, and who was in Havana for the Biennial, noted that she at no time saw a black icon in Catholic, Pentecostal or Baptist churches. The creolization of religion in general affected her profoundly The Black Virgin's popularity in Cuba reveals the country's receptivity to other tillages and helps to explain the extraordinary inclusiveness of the Havana Biennial. COPYRIGHT 1998 Brant Publications, Inc. 1 Paint uncook rigatoni r black, and verdant (Black stands for the African American family red stands for their endeavors and green stands for their hopes) 2 When the paint dri... Alfred Publishing Co Inc. 16320 Roscoe Blvd Ste 100 Van Nuy CA 91410 (818) 891-5999 or (818) 892-2452 (customer service) Fax (818) 892-9239... Identical scans conducted in the UK and the USA intimate that businesses in the USA are more proficient at archiving data than in the UK says BridgeHead Software. The observe also shows that organ... Although I was a high seminary literature and writing teacher for 25 years, and began offering high seminary students young adult titles when The Outsider and The Contender were of high temperature off the presses, I ... January 18-20 2005 Machine Safeguarding Seminar, Rockford, Ill., Rockford combination of parts to form a wholes Inc., (800) 922-7533, rockfordsystems.com January 24-28 2005 Laser Safety Officer Training, novel ... newt Report 08-18-2004 Are The of recent origin OCC CIP Guidelines Too Loose? Volume: 28 Number: 17 ISSN: 01957287 Publication Date: 08-18-2004 Page: 1 Type: Periodic... Exhibitions available: pARTs Photographic Arts has produc an important exhibition of contemporary Cuban photography that is available to tour [i]or[/i] part of to the other 2003. "From the Negative: Conceptual Photog... The ability for a company to be in touch with its potential and in every one's mouth markets, particularly in the export arena, means that a number of important factors must be considered to succe withi... |
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