Nuyorican & diasporican visual art : a critical anthology / edited by Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez ; with Néstor David Pastor, Gabriel Magraner, and Nikki Myers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dávila, Arlene M., 1965- editor.

Ramirez, Yasmin, editor.

Pastor, Néstor David, editor.

Magraner, Gabriel, editor.

Myers, Nikki, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Puerto Rican--New York (State)--New York.

Art, Puerto Rican.

Art, Puerto Rican--United States.

Art, Puerto Rican--Themes, motives.

Group identity in art.

Hispanic American artists.

Physical Description:

453 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Nuyorican and diasporican visual art

Place of Publication:

Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical (re)evaluation and historical overview of Nuyorican and Diasporican visual art production. The contributors assert the importance and contemporaneity of the Nuyorican art movement by tracing its emergence alongside vanguardist movements in New York City from the 1960s onward. Following the expansion and decentralization of the Puerto Rican diaspora and its artistic output to highlight the innovation and worldmaking of artists across the United States, the volume branches out beyond New York to explore art as an expression of Puerto Rican communities in cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Orlando. Understanding Nuyorican and Diasporican art as intersectional and inclusive movements, the voices in this volume also highlight the undervalued contributions and radical aesthetics of women, Black, and queer Puerto Rican artists"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The way out = left out? : paradoxes of Puerto Rican avant-garde Art / Melissa M. Ramos Borges

Nuyorican vanguards : The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York / Yasmin Ramirez

The construction of Nuyorican identity in the art of Taller Boricua / Taína Caragol

The politics and poetics of Máximo Colón's activist photography / Elizabeth Ferrer

Artistic decoloniality as aesthetic praxis : making and transforming imaginations and communities in NYC / Wilson Valentín-Escobar

The art of survival : the visual art activism of Maria Dominguez / Al Hoyos-Twomey

The parallel aesthetics of Nilda Peraza / Néstor David Pastor

Creative camaraderie : Puerto Rican/Nuyorican artists and Robert Blackburn's printmaking workshop / Deborah Cullen-Morales

Part II. Diasporican sites : reports from the field

Unpacking the portmanteau : locating diasporican art / Teréz Iacovino

Puerto Rican arts in Philadelphia : una perla Boricua en Filadelfia / Johnny Irizarry

"A pesar de todo" : the survival of an Afro-Puerto Rican family in Frank Espada's Puerto Rican Diaspora Project / Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez

The fight to make art in Borilando / Raquel Reichard

Abstractions between Puerto Rico and Chicago : an ongoing conversation about nationalism and nonrepresentational art / Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos

Part III. All of the above : diasporican aesthetics

Nuyorican poets' art of making books / Urayoán Noel

Visual artists, surrealist communions : Lois Elaine Griffith and Jorge Soto Sánchez at the Nuyorican Poets Café / Joseph Anthony Cáceres

"SAMO©...as an epic poem with flames" : Al Díaz's poetics of disruption / Rojo Robles

¡No te luzcas! : Nuyorican performance and spectacularity in the visual art of Adál, David Antonio Cruz, and Luis Carle / Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé

"Bridging gaps and building communities" : Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz's Ask Chuleta and Afro-Latinx identity beyond the "white box" / Kerry Doran

A Modernist Nuyorican casita and the aesthetics of gentrification / Johana Londoño

Conclusion. The Spatial Politics of Shellyne Rodriguez, Rigoberto Torres, Lee Quiñones, and Danielle De Jesus

With Some Concluding Comments / Arlene Dávila.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nuyorican and diasporican visual art

ISBN:

9781478031215

1478031212

9781478026952

1478026952

OCLC:

1428776882

Publisher Number:

90102372525