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.
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, Gabriel Magraner, Nikki Myers, Urayoán Noel, Néstor David Pastor, Yasmin Ramirez, Melissa M. Ramos Borges, Raquel Reichard, Rojo Robles, Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos, Wilson Valentín-Escobar
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez
- 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
- 2. Nuyorican Vanguards: The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York / Yasmin Ramirez
- 3. The Construction of Nuyorican Identity in the Art of Taller Boricua / Taína Caragol
- 4. The Politics and Poetics of Máximo Colón’s Activist Photography / Elizabeth Ferrer
- 5. Artistic Decoloniality as Aesthetic Praxis: Making and Transforming Imaginations and Communities in NYC / Wilson Valentín-Escobar
- 6. The Art of Survival: The Visual Art Activism of Maria Dominguez / Al Hoyos-Twomey
- 7. The Parallel Aesthetics of Nilda Peraza / Néstor David Pastor
- 8. Creative Camaraderie: Puerto Rican/Nuyorican Artists and Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop / Deborah Cullen-Morales
- Part II. Diasporican Sites: Reports from the Field
- 9. Unpacking the Portmanteau: Locating Diasporican Art / Teréz Lacovino
- 10. Puerto Rican Arts in Philadelphia: Una Perla Boricua en Filadelfia / Johnny Irizarry
- 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
- 12. The Fight to Make Art in Borilando: Raquel Reichard
- 13. Abstractions between Puerto Rico and Chicago: An Ongoing Conversation about Nationalism and Nonrepresentational Art / Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos
- Part III. All of the Above: Diasporican Aesthetics
- 14. Nuyorican Poets’ Art of Making Books / Urayoán Noel
- 15. Visual Artists, Surrealist Communions:
Lois Elaine Griffith and Jorge Soto Sánchez
at the Nuyorican Poets Café / Joseph Anthony Cáceres
- 16. “SAMO© . . . AS AN EPIC POEM WITH FLAMES: ”Al Díaz’s Poetics of Disruption / Rojo Robles
- 17. ¡No te luzcas!: Nuyorican Performance and Spectacularity in the Visual Art of Adál, David Antonio Cruz, and Luis Carle / Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé
- 18. “Bridging Gaps and Building Communities”: Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz’s Ask Chuleta and Afro-Latinx Identity beyond the “White Box” / Kerry Doran
- 19. A Modernist Nuyorican Casita and the Aesthetics of Gentrification / Johana Londoño
- Conclusion: The Spatial Politics of Shellyne Rodriguez, Rigoberto Torres, Lee Quiñones, and Danielle De Jesus—With Some Concluding Comments / Arlene Dávila
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