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.

About the Author

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is an art historian and curator focused on contemporary US Latinx and modern and contemporary Latin American, Caribbean, and African American art. She is Senior Program Officer for arts and culture at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice.

Deborah Cullen-Morales is an art historian and curator focused on modern and contemporary Latinx, Caribbean, and African American art. She is Program Officer for arts and culture at the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.

Reviews

"This much-anticipated volume is exactly what we need to incorporate Latinx art as a key, required component in the curriculum. Authored by two of the most recognized intellectual leaders in the field, this project is an essential resource for scholars working across the fields of art history and visual culture studies and could not come at a better time."—Arlene Dávila, author of Latinx Art

"In their Handbook of Latinx Art, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Debroah Cullen-Morales highlight for us the voices of artists and critics, along with the possibilities within exhibition making encompassed under the rubric of Latinx creativity. In these expansive discussions of art of the last century we uncover ever more of the Americanness in American art. A Handbook of Latinx Art is a stellar compilation that comes at the right time. It is a much-needed volume that helps us continue writing and imagining the ongoing story of American art through a generous Latinx lens."—Kellie Jones, author of South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

"This collection is an invaluable resource that positions 'Latinx art' as a complex and diverse practice at the intersections of American, Caribbean, and Latin American art. Drawing on key works, it introduces readers to an eye-opening critical dialogue taking place in the United States since the 1970s among artists, curators, and scholars."—Chon Noriega, coauthor of Home—So Different, So Appealing