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Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 23 May 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376521-110
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7652-1
Published: 04 July 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387008-088
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8700-8
Published: 10 June 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822378884-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7888-4
Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 01 January 2009
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391418-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9141-8
Published: 16 November 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002727-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0272-7
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... Máximo Colón photography Borough of Manhattan Community College leftism ...
Published: 22 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6043-7
... American art collage queer atomic energy Manhattan Project ...
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By Tristan Taormino
Published: 05 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027218-027
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2721-8
... Tristan works at the Gay Games and moves in with Riley in Manhattan. Gay Games LGBTQ New York City butch/femme queer history ...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-118
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
.... His rich body of work is marked by its intimate subjective perspectives and its elegant, distilled expression. In 2004, Mitre published his volume of poems The Manhattan Umbrella, a tribute to the spaces and people of New York City. As the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina put it, the book captures...
Published: 22 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060437-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6043-7
... of catastrophe and madness made in the postwar era of the atomic age. Trained as a radiochemist, Jess was drafted into the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1943 and served on the Manhattan Project monitoring plutonium production. He moved to San Francisco in 1949, where he pursued an art career and eventually shed...
Published: 22 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6043-7
... by Jess titled The 5th Never of Old Lear , an allegory of catastrophe and madness made in the postwar era of the atomic age. Trained as a radiochemist, Jess was drafted into the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1943 and served on the Manhattan Project monitoring plutonium production. He moved to San...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-110
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... of work is marked by its intimate subjective perspectives and its elegant, distilled expression. In 2004, Mitre published his volume of poems The Manhattan Umbrella, a tribute to the spaces and people of New York City. As the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina put it, the book captures “that strange...
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... that photography itself is a political act. Colón’s legacy lies in his dedication to documenting his community’s journey and advocating for justice through the lens. Máximo Colón photography Borough of Manhattan Community College leftism This chapter delves into the artivist interventions of Puerto...
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By Jan Olsson
Published: 25 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376026-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7602-6
... This chapter moves from public eating to home cooking as a strand intertwined with screen practices. From Hitchcock’s inaugural visit to the United States, it follows the trajectory of the reception as he negotiated contract options parallel to stuffing himself in Manhattan while spinning...
Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture
Published: 05 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059264-019
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9396-1
... community (FGC) as it was nurtured by the physical space of Manhattan’s Chinatown Fair Arcade and, after its shuttering, the Next Level arcade in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, as well as the NYC-based Twitch channel “Team Spooky.” The chapter ultimately argues that a specific brand of the Blerd as an identity...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... for justice through the lens. Máximo Colón photography Borough of Manhattan Community College leftism ...
Published: 09 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373926-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7392-6
... The opening months of 1981 witnessed an intensification of the conversation that had begun to take place between downtown artists, new wave musicians, and graffiti writers. Diego Cortez curated the New York/New Wave exhibition at PS1. Keith Haring curated the Lower Manhattan Drawing Show...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... This chapter delves into the artivist interventions of Puerto Rican artists Adál Maldonado and Sandra María Esteves at the New Rican Village (NRV) cultural arts and education center on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Focused on challenging social alienation and mainstream art institutions...
Book Chapter

By Hettie Jones
Published: 23 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374152-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7415-2
... Real estate threatens artists in downtown Manhattan. Fielding Dawson dies. Bush and madmen blundering everywhere. Hettie is denied entry into Bedford Hills Prison, escorted by security out to parking lot, letter comes: “Your ID will be destroyed . . .” Paranoia everywhere, even Gloucester...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... This chapter explores the origins and significance of SAMO© (1978–80), a poetic satire critiquing the corporatization of arts and life. Created by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Díaz, both of Puerto Rican descent, SAMO© emerged as graffiti messages on Manhattan walls, cryptically challenging...