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Tatiana Flores is Associate Professor of Art History and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the author of Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30!.
Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and coeditor of Archipelagic American Studies, also published by Duke University Press.
List of contents
Foreword / Lourdes I. Ramos-Rivas, PhD 11
Part I. Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
1. Relational Undercurrents: Towards an Archipelagic Model of Insular Caribbean Art / Tatiana Flores and Michelle A. Stephens 14
2. Inscribing into Consciousness: The Work of Caribbean Art / Tatiana Flores 29
Catalogue Images 91
Part II. The Caribbean Islands and Their Diasporas
3. Actes de Transformation: Mixing and Mapping Haitian Aesthetics / Jerry Philogene 191
4. Among the Islands: Dominican Art at Home and Abroad / Rocío Aranda-Alvarado 205
5. A Local History in the Global Narrative: Notes on Cuban Art between Two Centuries / Antonio Eligio (Tonel) 219
6. Aglutinación: The Collective Spirit of Puerto Rican Art / Laura Roulet 231
Part III. The Archipelagic Caribbean
7. On Metaphysical Catastrophe, Post-Continental Thought, and the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres 247
8. There are no islands without the sea: Being a compendium of facts, fictions, names, etymologies, lyrics, and questions, in the form of a broken-up archipelago / Nicholas Laughlin 261
9. Arc'd Relations: Archive and Archipelago in the Greater Caribbean / Michelle A. Stephens 278
Exhibition Checklist 294
Artist Biographies / Kaitlyn Argila, Diego Atehortúa, and Kaitlin Booher 300
Contributor Biographies 307
Index 308
Acknowledgments 317
About the author
Tatiana Flores is Associate Professor of Art History and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the author of Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30-30!.
Michelle Ann Stephens is Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and coeditor of Archipelagic American Studies, also published by Duke University Press.
Summary
Relational Undercurrents accompanies an exhibition by the same name that opens at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California in September, 2017. The exhibition and edited volume call attention to the artistic production of the Caribbean islands and their diasporas, challenging the conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America.
