Full Description
In Latinx Art Arlene DÁvila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look of the global contemporary art market, DÁvila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. DÁvila shows the importance of race, class, and nationalism in shaping contemporary art markets while providing a path for scrutinizing art and culture institutions and for diversifying the art world.
Contents
Acknowledgments & Reader Instructions vii
Introduction. Making Latinx Art 1
1. What Is Latinx Art? Lessons from Chicanx and Diasporican Artists 23
2. Exhibiting Latinx Art: On Critics, Curators, and Going "Beyond the Formula" 48
3. Nationalism and the Currency of Categories 79
4. On Markets and the Need for Cheerleaders 104
5. Whitewashing at Work, and Some Ways Out 138
Conclusion: At the Vanguard of Arts and Museum Activism in the Twenty-First Century 168
Appendix A: Noncomprehensive List of Artists Everyone Should Know 177
Appendix B: Additional Resources 185
Notes 189
References 203
Index 223
