A Handbook of Latinx Art

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Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Deborah Cullen-Morales
Univ of California Press, Feb 25, 2025 - Art - 424 pages
A curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
 
A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists have made to art in the United States. Drawn from wide-ranging sources, this volume includes texts by artists, critics, and scholars from the 1960s to the present that reflect the diversity of the Latinx experience across the nation, from the West Coast and the Mexican border to New York, Miami, and the Midwest.
 
The anthology features essential writings by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Central American artists to highlight how visionaries of diverse immigrant groups negotiate issues of participation and belonging, material, style, and community in their own voices. These intersectional essays cut across region, gender, race, and class to lay out a complex emerging field that reckons with different histories, geographies, and political engagements and, ultimately, underscores the importance of Latinx artists to the history of American art.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
NEW DIRECTIONS
5
The Latino Presence in American Art
21
Third Fragments
41
Image and Identity in LatinoAmerican Art
54
The Other History of Intercultural Performance
67
Contemporary Chicana Artists
93
The Call to Unity
108
The Orphans of Modernism
196
Solidarity Resistance Identity
219
When the Formula Worked
237
Art as Plebiscite for Survival Struggle
259
Milk of AmnesiaLeche de Amnesia
272
Cuban Performance and the US Context
289
Remapping Dominican York
311
Performing Life on the Margin between Art and Politics
326

TwentiethCentury Latin American and Latinx Art in the Midwestern United
127
The Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican
145
An Investigation into the Space of Chicanao Muralism
163
Tenemos Asco An Oral History of the Chicano Art Group
173
Does That Come with a Hyphen? A Space? The Question of Central
331
How Multiple Facets of Black Latinidad Are Claiming Space
344
Yelaine Rodriguez 2021
352
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