Full Description
Although 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
Contents
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
