Nuyorican Vanguards, political actions, poetic visions: A history of Puerto Rican artists in New York, 1964--1984.
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Title
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Nuyorican Vanguards, political actions, poetic visions: A history of Puerto Rican artists in New York, 1964--1984.
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Identifier
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AAI3159248
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identifier
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3159248
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Creator
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Ramirez, Yasmin.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Katherine Manthorne
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | American Studies | Literature, Latin American
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Abstract
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Nuyorican Vanguards, Political Actions, Poetic Visions. A History of Puerto Rican Artists in New York, 1964 to 1984 is a twenty-year overview of social activism and institution building by Puerto Rican artists living in New York (hereinafter designated as "Nuyoricans"). A primary aim of this dissertation is to analyze the dynamics of Nuyorican arts activism during a momentous era in New York City's history, one that was marked by sustained collective organizing among artists from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds to establish "alternative" galleries that catered to needs of artists that faced discrimination in mainstream institutions. The following questions guided my research: what movements and organizations did Nuyorican artists create and/or join? How did race, class, and gender affect the abilities of Nuyoricans to form coalitions among themselves and with artists of different ethnic backgrounds?;Artists of Puerto Rican descent, either born or bred in New York, were at the forefront of social movements to reform civil society in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to participating in anti-war protests and civil rights demonstrations, Nuyorican artist activists were also highly invested in local grass-roots initiatives to rehabilitate the inner city. From 1969 to 1981 interlinked circles of Nuyorican artists created community-based alternative galleries in El Barrio (East Harlem), Loisaida (The Lower East Side), the South Bronx and SoHo. They transformed areas once stigmatized as "ghettos" "slums" and "war zones" into neighborhoods where (sub) cultural happenings, performances, art exhibitions, mural making, and poetry readings became daily occurrences. This unprecedented show of organized force among Nuyorican artists during the 1970s and early 1980s establishes that they formed a vanguard movement that broadened New York's visual culture.;While Nuyorican artists collectively founded institutions and supported causes on behalf of the Puerto Rican and Latino community, the visual art they produced was not limited to a single style. Instead, Nuyorican art created between 1964 and 1984 manifests similarities in terms of the themes the artists addressed and the literary sources they consulted. In this dissertation I highlight motifs in works by Nuyorican visual artists that echo themes addressed in Nuyorican poetry concerning migration, life in New York City's Latino barrios and the affirmation of Puerto Rican identity in the United States.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.