Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology

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: N?stor David Pastor, Gabriel Magraner, and Nikki Myers

Contributors. Joseph Anthony C?ceres, Ta?na Caragol, Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malav?, Deborah Cullen-Morales, Arlene D?vila, Kerry Doran, Elizabeth Ferrer, Yomaira C. Figueroa-V?squez, Al Hoyos-Twomey, Ter?z Iacovino, Johnny Irizarry, Johana Londo?o, Urayo?n Noel, N?stor David Pastor, Yasmin Ramirez, Melissa M. Ramos Borges, Raquel Reichard, Rojo Robles, Abdiel D. Segarra R?os, Wilson Valent?n-Escobar

Author: Arlene D?vila
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781478026952

About the Author
Arlene D?vila is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University and author, most recently, of Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

Yasmin Ramirez is Adjunct Professor of Art at the City College of New York and an independent curator who has collaborated with The Bronx Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and Taller Boricua, among others.