Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art (eBook)

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 Caceres, Taina Caragol, Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malave, Deborah Cullen-Morales, Arlene Davila, Kerry Doran, Elizabeth Ferrer, Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vasquez, Al Hoyos-Twomey, Terez Iacovino, Johnny Irizarry, Johana Londono, Gabriel Magraner, Nikki Myers, Urayoan Noel, Nestor David Pastor, Yasmin Ramirez, Melissa M. Ramos Borges, Raquel Reichard, Rojo Robles, Abdiel D. Segarra Rios, Wilson Valentin-Escobar