This must be the place : an oral history of Latin American artists in New York, 1965-1975 / Aimé Iglesias Lukin; editors, Tie Jojima and Karen Marta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iglesias Lukin, Aimé, author.

Lapin Dardashti, Abigail, author.

Montgomery, Harper, author.

Ramirez, Yasmin, author.

Contributor:

Marta, Karen, editor.

Jojima, Tie, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Latin American--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Latin American.

Art, Latin American--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Oral histories.

Physical Description:

431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Americas Society ; New York : Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), 2022.

Summary:

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, during a time of global cultural and social upheaval, a key group of Latin American artists migrated to New York. Part of the generational shift toward Happenings, Minimalism and Conceptualism, they worked in conversation with experimental practices while exploring topics of migration, identity, politics, exile and nostalgia. Drawing from both American culture and the cultures of their countries of origin, their works reflect the unique perspectives both as insiders and outsiders that these artists had as newcomers. Conceived as a visual reader with newly sourced and existing testimonies, This Must Be the Place is the first book of its kind to highlight this generation of artists in interviews and primary source material. Organized by themes and illustrated with artworks, photographs and other archival material, the testimonies of these artists offer the reader a dynamic, candid and historically rich memoir of 1960s and 1970s New York. Exhibition: Americas Society, New York, USA (15.09. - 15.05.2022).

Contents:

Introduction / Aime Iglesias Lukin

This Must Be the Place / Aime Iglesias Lukin

An Oral History / Tie Jojima

The City

Community and Institutions

Politics, Identity, and the Body

Cildo Meireles in New York: Coca-Cola Bottles and Subway Tokens / Harper Montgomery

Año Cero: 1969 / Yasmin Ramirez

Abdias do Nascimento and His Contemporaries: Black Power and Art in New York City / Abigail Lapin Dardashti

Notes:

Published in conjunction with a exhibition held at the Americas Society in New York from September 22, 2021 - May 14, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-427).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781879128507

1879128500

OCLC:

1303217440