Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art

Auteur

Arlene Dávila is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University and author, most recently, of Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

Yasmin Ramirez is Adjunct Professor of Art at the City College of New York and an independent curator who has collaborated with The Bronx Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and Taller Boricua, among others.

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Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art provides a critical survey of Puerto Rican art production in the United States from the 1960s to the present.

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Acknowledgments 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