Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art

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. <i>Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art</i> 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.<br><br>With: Néstor David Pastor Gabriel Magraner and Nikki Myers<br><br>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