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... This chapter examines the underacknowledged contributions of Maria Dominguez, a community muralist, painter, and arts educator, to the Nuyorican art movement in the 1980s. Focused on the Nuyorican Lower East Side, the chapter analyzes three projects undertaken by Dominguez between 1983 and 1987...

... “Nuyorican” as a marker of difference and cultural identity. The chapter delves into the tension between hypervisibility and invisibility, revealing how certain strands of Nuyorican visual arts challenge sensationalized representation. Through the work of artists like David Antonio Cruz, Luis Carle, Adál...

...Visual Arts and Religion ...

... This chapter considers work by artists who explore the nexus between urban popular photographic practices and visual constructions of prestige and personhood in the history of art. It analyzes Kehinde Wiley’s paintings and Black Light (2010) photographic series, which foreground issues of black...

... This chapter traces how the circulation of intercultural images spoke to the changing demographics of Los Angeles between 1992 and 2008, producing new relationships and voicing new ideas about the seemingly discrete and separate categories of Mexican and Black. During this time, visual artists...

... Visual narratives matter; it matters who creates them, who receives them, and how they disrupt colonial logics to subtly or loudly demand a just world. The artworks discussed in this book as acts of visual disobedience reveal a complex history of colonial legacies, empire, and manifestations...

... The introduction unpacks the significance of Stuart Hall’s ideas on visual art and culture, and it outlines the variety of materials included in the collection—for example, essays, lectures, reviews, catalogue texts, and conversations. Stuart Hall visual art culture imaginary race ...