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A nuanced and personal look at the Latino art world in New York from the 1970s to the new millennium In this deft interweaving of autobiography with the story of Latino art's place in the flourishing New York art scene, Edward J. Sullivan calls attention to the prominent influence of Latin American artists from the 1970s until today. Recounting his own journey from student and curator to one of the field's most celebrated scholars, Sullivan gives readers an insider's look at a time when Latino art went from the margins to the spotlight and the discipline of Latin American art emerged. Beginning in the wake of the Black Power, gay liberation, and second wave feminism movements, Latino artists exhibited their work everywhere from alternative art spaces to major museums and forged a community and a collective identity. As Latin American and Latino artists navigated crises from AIDS to 9/11, they established their art forms as central to academic study and made New York's institutions, museums, and galleries take it more seriously. Sullivan offers his readers an intimate view of the people, places, and events that populated the world of Latino art in New York as he showcases Latin American art from ancient to modern times. Rufino Tamayo, Carmen Herrera, Pepón Osorio, Cecilia Vicuña, and Juan Sánchez are among the many personalities who populated the scene. The result is a compelling and often surprising tale of cultural, personal, and institutional activity, and, at times, the intrigues that result from their collaborations.

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“Edward Sullivan interweaves frank memoir and incisive criticism to offer rare insights into the ways that curators and writers shape artistic movements, impacting how and what we see. Latino New York takes an expansive, hemispheric view of Latin American and Latinx art.”—Elizabeth Ferrer, author of Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History “A fantastic read. As a pioneer in the history and theory of Latin American art, Edward Sullivan skillfully marries memoir with an evocation of this world's key figures and events between 1970 and 2001.”—Lowery Stokes Sims, author of Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982 “Drawing on personal and professional recollections along with scholarship, Latino New York offers readers a first-person cultural landscape that is familiar to many—New York as a global art hub—but that few can map as comprehensively and affectionately as Sullivan does here.”—George Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin “Latino New York is an inspiring portrait of a scholar and his home of New York City, fascinatingly entwined with many artists, curators, academics, and landmark exhibitions.”—Paul Niell, Florida State University

""Drawing on personal and professional recollections along with scholarship, Latino New York offers readers a first-person cultural landscape that is familiar to many--New York as a global art hub--but that few can map as comprehensively and affectionately as Sullivan does here.""--George Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin ""Latino New York is an inspiring portrait of a scholar and his home of New York City, fascinatingly entwined with many artists, curators, academics, and landmark exhibitions.""--Paul Niell, Florida State University ""A fantastic read. As a pioneer in the history and theory of Latin American art, Edward Sullivan skillfully marries memoir with an evocation of this world's key figures and events between 1970 and 2001.""--Lowery Stokes Sims, author of Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982

""Edward Sullivan interweaves frank memoir and incisive criticism to offer rare insights into the ways that curators and writers shape artistic movements, impacting how and what we see. Latino New York takes an expansive, hemisphere view of Latin American and Latinx art.""--Elizabeth Ferrer, author of Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History ""A fantastic read. As a pioneer in the history and theory of Latin American art, Edward Sullivan skillfully marries memoir with an evocation of this world's key figures and events between 1970 and 2001.""--Lowery Stokes Sims, author of Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982 ""Drawing on personal and professional recollections along with scholarship, Latino New York offers readers a first-person cultural landscape that is familiar to many--New York as a global art hub--but that few can map as comprehensively and affectionately as Sullivan does here.""--George Flaherty, University of Texas at Austin ""Latino New York is an inspiring portrait of a scholar and his home of New York City, fascinatingly entwined with many artists, curators, academics, and landmark exhibitions.""--Paul Niell, Florida State University

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Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art at New York University.

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