Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art

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Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez, editors

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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