Full Description
A curated selection of key texts and artists' voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Drawn from wide-ranging sources, this volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience across the nation, from the West Coast and the Mexican border to New York, Miami, and the Midwest.
The anthology features essential writings by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Central American artists to highlight how visionaries of diverse immigrant groups negotiate issues of participation and belonging, material, style, and community in their own voices. These intersectional essays cut across region, gender, race, and class to lay out a complex emerging field that reckons with different histories, geographies, and political engagements and, ultimately, underscores the importance of Latinx artists to the history of American art.
Contents
Contents
Introduction
FRAMING LATINX ART
The Latino Presence in American Art
E. Carmen Ramos, 2012
Synopsis of the Symposium on the Hispanic American Aesthetic: Origins, Manifestations,
and Significance
Jacinto Quirarte, 1983
Wonder Bread and Spanglish Art
Luis Camnitzer, 1990
Zero Identity: Third Fragments
Papo Colo, 1991
Border Culture: The Multicultural Paradigm
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 1990
Between Two Waters: Image and Identity in Latino-American Art
Mari Carmen Ramírez, 1991
The Other History of Intercultural Performance
Coco Fusco, 1995
MEXICAN AMERICAN AND CHICANO/A/X PERSPECTIVES
"Portraying Ourselves": Contemporary Chicana Artists
Shifra M. Goldman, 1988
Indigenismo: The Call to Unity
Amalia Mesa-Bains, 1989
Twentieth-Century Latin American and Latinx Art in the Midwestern United States:
Chronological Overview
Olga U. Herrera, 2008
The Con Safo Art Group (1968-76), San Antonio, Texas
Ruben C. Cordova, 2022
From Populist to Pop: The Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements
Henry C. Estrada, 1999
Birth of a Movement: Thirty Years in the Making of a Site of Public Memory
Judith F. Baca, 2001
La Raza Cósmica: An Investigation into the Space of Chicana/o Muralism
Sandra de la Loza, 2011
¡Tenemos Asco! An Oral History of the Chicano Art Group
Sean Carrillo, Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Glugio "Gronk" Nicandro,
Humberto Sandoval, Joey Terrill, and Patssi Valdez, 2022
Axis Mundo: Constellations and Connections
C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, 2017
The Orphans of Modernism
Chon A. Noriega, 2008
PUERTO RICAN AND NUYORICAN HISTORIES
Puerto Rican Artists in the USA: Solidarity, Resistance, Identity
Susana Torruella Leval, 1998
Cayman and MoCHA: When the Formula Worked
Taína Caragol, 2022
Culture and the People
Ralph Ortiz (Raphael Montañez Ortiz), 1971
The Activist Legacy of Puerto Rican Artists in New York and The Art Heritage of Puerto Rico
Yasmin Ramirez, 2007
The Puerto Rican Equation: Art as Plebiscite for Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty
Juan Sánchez, 1998
The Possible Role for the Caribbean Artist in an Urban Setting
Jorge Soto, 1980
CUBAN AMERICAN VOICES
Dialectics of Isolation
Ana Mendieta, 1980
Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia
Carmelita Tropicana, 1995
Double Invisibility: Cuban Performance and the US Context
Elvis Fuentes, 2008
Liminal Places
Teresita Fernández, 2023
DOMINICAN YORK VIEWPOINTS
The Island within the Island: Remapping Dominican York
Tatiana Reinoza, 2018
A Complicated Affair: Performing Life on the Margin between Art and Politics
Nicolás Dumit Estévez, 2011
NEW DIRECTIONS
"Does That Come with a Hyphen? A Space?" The Question of Central American-Americans in
Latino Art and Pedagogy
Kency Cornejo, 2015
Afro-Latinx at NYU: How Multiple Facets of Black Latinidad Are Claiming Space.
Yelaine Rodriguez, 2021
Index
