A Handbook of Latinx Art

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.

Table of Contents:
Contents Introduction  FRAMING LATINX ART The Latino Presence in American Art E. Carmen Ramos, 2012 Synopsis of the Symposium on the Hispanic American Aesthetic: Origins, Manifestations,  and Significance Jacinto Quirarte, 1983 Wonder Bread and Spanglish Art Luis Camnitzer, 1990 Zero Identity: Third Fragments Papo Colo, 1991 Border Culture: The Multicultural Paradigm Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 1990 Between Two Waters: Image and Identity in Latino-American Art Mari Carmen Ramírez, 1991 The Other History of Intercultural Performance Coco Fusco, 1995 MEXICAN AMERICAN AND CHICANO/A/X PERSPECTIVES “Portraying Ourselves”: Contemporary Chicana Artists Shifra M. Goldman, 1988 Indigenismo: The Call to Unity Amalia Mesa-Bains, 1989 Twentieth-Century Latin American and Latinx Art in the Midwestern United States:  Chronological Overview Olga U. Herrera, 2008 The Con Safo Art Group (1968–76), San Antonio, Texas Ruben C. Cordova, 2022 From Populist to Pop: The Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Movements Henry C. Estrada, 1999 Birth of a Movement: Thirty Years in the Making of a Site of Public Memory Judith F. Baca, 2001 La Raza Cósmica: An Investigation into the Space of Chicana/o Muralism Sandra de la Loza, 2011 ¡Tenemos Asco! An Oral History of the Chicano Art Group Sean Carrillo, Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Glugio “Gronk” Nicandro, Humberto Sandoval, Joey Terrill, and Patssi Valdez, 2022 Axis Mundo: Constellations and Connections C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, 2017 The Orphans of Modernism Chon A. Noriega, 2008 PUERTO RICAN AND NUYORICAN HISTORIES Puerto Rican Artists in the USA: Solidarity, Resistance, Identity Susana Torruella Leval, 1998 Cayman and MoCHA: When the Formula Worked Taína Caragol, 2022 Culture and the People Ralph Ortiz (Raphael Montañez Ortiz), 1971 The Activist Legacy of Puerto Rican Artists in New York and The Art Heritage of Puerto Rico Yasmin Ramirez, 2007 The Puerto Rican Equation: Art as Plebiscite for Survival, Struggle, and Sovereignty  Juan Sánchez, 1998 The Possible Role for the Caribbean Artist in an Urban Setting Jorge Soto, 1980 CUBAN AMERICAN VOICES Dialectics of Isolation Ana Mendieta, 1980 Milk of Amnesia/Leche de Amnesia Carmelita Tropicana, 1995 Double Invisibility: Cuban Performance and the US Context  Elvis Fuentes, 2008 Liminal Places Teresita Fernández, 2023 DOMINICAN YORK VIEWPOINTS The Island within the Island: Remapping Dominican York Tatiana Reinoza, 2018 A Complicated Affair: Performing Life on the Margin between Art and Politics Nicolás Dumit Estévez, 2011 NEW DIRECTIONS “Does That Come with a Hyphen? A Space?” The Question of Central American–Americans in  Latino Art and Pedagogy Kency Cornejo, 2015 Afro-Latinx at NYU: How Multiple Facets of Black Latinidad Are Claiming Space.  Yelaine Rodriguez, 2021 Index