Description
Book Synopsis2023Outstanding Book Award?, National Association for Ethnic Studies
Finalist,2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award,College Art Association
How Latinx artists around the US adopted the medium of printmaking to reclaim the lands of the Americas.
Printmakers have conspired, historically, to illustrate the maps created by European colonizers that were used to chart and claim their expanding territories. Over the last three decades, Latinx artists and print studios have reclaimed this printed art form for their own spatial discourse. This book examines the limited editions produced at four art studios around the US that span everything from sly critiques of Manifest Destiny to printed portraits of Dreamers in Texas.
Reclaiming the Americas is the visual history of Latinx printmaking in the US. Tatiana Reinoza employs a pan-ethnic comparative model for this interdisciplinary study of graphic art, drawing on art history, Latinx studie
Trade Review
[A] pioneering book…[Reinoza] offers an interdisciplinary approach to Latinx printmaking from a decolonized perspective that debunks Eurocentric conventions of cartography and geography and reinscribes the art form of printmaking to the peoples of the Americas. * CHOICE *
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Native Territorialities: Ricardo Duffy’s Border Pop and the Indigenous Uncanny
- Chapter 2. Embodied Territorialities: Enrique Chagoya and Alberto Ríos Disrupting the Western Cartographic Gaze
- Chapter 3. Mestiza Territorialities: Sandra Fernández’s Migrant Justice and the Movable Border
- Chapter 4. Aqueous Territorialities: The Dominican York Proyecto Gráfica’s Island Dwellers and Water Boundaries
- Conclusion. Revolution on Display
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Printmaking Workshops
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
