Immigration in the visual art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe / Carol Damian, Michael J. LaRosa, and Steve Stein ; foreword by Annette Fromm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Damian, Carol, author.

LaRosa, Michael J., author.

Stein, Steve, author.

Contributor:

Fromm, Annette, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration in art.

Folk art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 131 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Art meets today's political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe's retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the creative gaze of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jiménez is creating work that powerfully encapsulates the struggles, possibilities, and tragedies of immigration from the Global South to North America. A decorative box with figures in the interior, the retablo in the Andes became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among the herds owned by the local peasant population. These boxes served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. Now reimagined by Jiménez, the retablo offers compelling insights into the bitter immigration disputes dividing our nation.

Contents:

By Way of Introduction

The Retablo : Testimony, Tradition, and the Case for Fine Art in Popular Culture

Corporal and Artistic Migration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe : Peruvian Years

The Immigration Retablos : Art Questions Politics in America

Despair and Hope in the Immigration Retablos of Nicario Jiménez Quispe

Conclusion : Beyond the Wall

ISBN:

979-82-16-24035-8

979-88-8183-224-7

1-5381-2853-5

OCLC:

1096214075