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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-101478031212

ISBN-139781478031215

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Book TitleNuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art : a Critical Anthology

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEthnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Criticism & Theory, General, American / Hispanic American

Publication Year2025

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Social Science

AuthorYasmin Ramirez

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight26.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2024-017407

ReviewsAn indispensable volume that traces the formation of Nuyorican identity through the intersections of visual and performance art with urban activist politics. The art of all marginalized people is inherently political, and these cogent and impactful essays by an array of quintessential contributors are a loving tribute to Puerto Rico's rapidly expanding diasporic arts community. From the Nuyorican Poets Café to Taller Boricua to barrio aesthetics in Philadelphia, Chicago, and beyond, Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art finally brings a long-ignored story to light., Making an important contribution to the fields of art history and cultural studies, this volume constitutes a groundbreaking study of the varied and wide-ranging visual art and aesthetics of Nuyorican and Diasporican communities. This unique and much-needed book challenges the elitism and racism that continues to characterize the art world and demonstrates that art-historical accounts of American and contemporary art that ignore or obscure the contributions of Nuyorican/Diasporican artists are incomplete and uninformed., Making an important contribution to the fields of art history and cultural studies, this volume constitutes a groundbreaking study of the varied and wide-ranging visual art and aesthetics of Nuyorican and Diasporican communities. This unique and much-needed book challenges the elitism and racism that continues to characterize the art world and demonstrates that art historical accounts of American and contemporary art that ignore or obscure the contributions of Nuyorican/Diasporican artists are incomplete and uninformed., Making an important contribution to the fields of art history and cultural studies, this volume constitutes a groundbreaking study of the varied and wide-ranging visual art and aesthetics of Nuyorican and Diasporican communities. This unique and much needed book challenges the elitism and racism that continues to characterize the art world and demonstrates that art historical accounts of American and contemporary art that ignore or obscure the contributions of Nuyorican/Diasporican artists are incomplete and uninformed., What these and so many more Nuyorican/Diasporican artists share is a perspective that confronts an increasingly aggressive financial speculation in housing and space in contemporary cities. Their art comprises a demand to be visible, recognised, and valued in a metropolitan space ordered by an imperial culture bent on erasing the singularity of its colonial peoples., An indispensable volume that traces the formation of Nuyorican identity through the intersections of visual and performance art with urban activist politics. The art of all marginalized people is inherently political, and these cogent and impactful essays by an array of quintessential contributors is a loving tribute to Puerto Rico's rapidly expanding diasporic arts community. From the Nuyorican Poets Café to Taller Boricua to barrio aesthetics in Philadelphia, Chicago, and beyond, Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art finally brings a long-ignored story to light., Taken as a whole, the book uplifts art as both resistance and blueprint for collective future-making. In the end, Nuyorican & Diasporican Visual Art is not just a book. It is a map, a record, and a movement. It reminds us that the work of liberation is collective and ongoing, and that visual art has always been a powerful force in that struggle.

Dewey Edition23/eng/20240722

Dewey Decimal709.7295

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez 1 Part I. From Puerto Rican to Nuyorican Forging Diasporican Art in New York 1. The Way Out=Left Out? Paradoxes of Puerto Rican Avant-Garde Art / Melissa M. Ramos Borges 27 2. Nuyorican Vanguards: The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York / Yasmin Ramirez 45 3. The Construction of Nuyorican Identity in the Art of Taller Bouricua / Taína Caragol 70 4. The Politics and Poetics of Máximo Colón's Activist Photography / Elizabeth Ferrer 90 5. Artistic Decoloniality as Aesthetic Praxis: Making and Transforming Imaginations and Communities in NYC / Wilson Valentín-Escobar 104 6. The Art of Survival: The Visual Art Activism of Maria Dominguez / Al Hoyos-Twomey 131 7. The Parallel Aesthetics of Nilda Peraza / Néstor David Pastor 149 8. Creative Camaraderie: Puerto Rican / Nuyorican Artists and Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop / Deborah Cullen-Morales 167 Part II. Diasporican Sites Reports from the Field 9. Unpacking the Portmanteau: Locating Diasporican Art / Teréz Iacovino 189 10. Puerto Rican Arts in Philadelphia: Una Perla Boricua en Filadelfia / Johnny Irizarry 212 11. "A pesar de todo": The Survival of an Afro-Puerto Rican Family in Frank Espada's Puerto Rican Diaspora Project / Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez 233 12. The Fight to Make Art in Borilando / Raquel Reichard 250 13. Abstractions between Puerto Rico and Chicago: An Ongoing Conversation about Nationalism and Nonprepresentational Art / Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos 270 Part III. All of the Above: Diasporican Aesthetics 14. Nuyorican Poets' Art of Making Books / Urayoán Noel 291 15. Visual Artists, Surrealist Communions: Lois Elaine Griffith and Jorge Soto Sánchez at the Nuyorican Poets Café / Joseph Anthony Cácares 311 16. "SAMO© . . . AS AN EPIC POEM WITH FLAMES": Al Díaz's Poetics of Disruption / Rojo Robles 329 17. ¡No te luzcas! Nuyorican Performance and Spectacularity in the Visual Art of Adál, David Antonio Cruz, and Luis Carle / Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé 352 18. "Bridging Gaps and Building Communities": Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz's Ask Chuleta and Afro-Latinx Identity beyond the "White Box" / Kerry Doran 372 19. A Modernist Nuyorican Casita and the Aesthetics of Gentrification / Johana Londoño 393 Conclusion. The Spatial Politics of Shellyne Rodriguez, Rigoberto Torres, Lee Quiñones, and Daniella De Jesus--With Some Concluding Comments / Arlene Dávila 407 Contributors 427 Index 435

SynopsisAlthough Puerto Rican artists have always been central figures in contemporary American and international art worlds, they have largely gone unrecognized and been excluded from art history canons. Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical survey of Puerto Rican art production in the United States from the 1960s to the present. The contributors assert the importance and contemporaneity of the Nuyorican art movement by tracing its emergence alongside other American vanguardist movements, highlighting its innovations, and exploring it as an expression of Puerto Rican culture beyond New York to include cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Orlando. They also foreground the contributions and radical aesthetics of female, Black, and queer Puerto Rican artists. Following the expansion and decentralization of the Puerto Rican diaspora and its artistic output, this volume is a call to action for scholars, curators, and artists to address the historical inequalities that have marginalized Diasporican artists and reassess the presence of Puerto Rican artists. With: Néstor David Pastor, Gabriel Magraner, and Nikki Myers Contributors. Joseph Anthony Cáceres, Taína Caragol, Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Deborah Cullen-Morales, Arlene Dávila, Kerry Doran, Elizabeth Ferrer, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, Al Hoyos-Twomey, Teréz Iacovino, Johnny Irizarry, Johana Londoño, Urayoán Noel, Néstor David Pastor, Yasmin Ramirez, Melissa M. Ramos Borges, Raquel Reichard, Rojo Robles, Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos, Wilson Valentín-Escobar, Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical survey of Puerto Rican art production in the United States from the 1960s to the present.

LC Classification NumberN6612.2.N89 2025