Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the "impossible state" of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign states.
Jana Evans Braziel launches a comparative study of art, politics, history, urban street cultures, engaged citizenships, and social transformations in three Antillean capital cities-Havana, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and San Juan, Puerto Rico-of the Greater Caribbean. The book includes a photo documentary archive of street art, murals, and installations by key muralists in these cities: Yulier Rodriguez Pérez, "Jerry" Rosembert Moïse, and Colectivo Morivivì (Chachi González Colón, Raysa Rodrìguez Garcìa, and Salomé Cortés). Braziel offers art historical and geopolitical analyses of the urban street art in their cities of production, underscoring street art as political, economic, and environmental engagements (and not as exclusively aesthetic ones) with urban space and street life.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Caribbean studies, Latin American studies, and urban studies.
| ISBN: | 9781032271194 |
| Publication date: | 7th October 2024 |
| Author: | Jana Evans Braziel |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 236 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Art and Politics |
| Genres: |
History of art Urban communities Political campaigning and advertising Industrialisation and industrial history History of the Americas Sociology Regional / International studies The arts: general topics |
Foregrounding street art in the capital cities of Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, this book argues that Antillean street artists diagnose the "impossible state" of the arrested present (colonized, occupied, or under dictatorship) while simultaneously imagining liberated futures and fully sovereign states.
Jana Evans Braziel launches a comparative study of art, politics, history, urban street cultures, engaged citizenships, and social transformations in three Antillean capital cities-Havana, Cuba; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and San Juan, Puerto Rico-of the Greater Caribbean. The book includes a photo documentary archive of street art, murals, and installations by key muralists in these cities: Yulier Rodriguez Pérez, "Jerry" Rosembert Moïse, and Colectivo Morivivì (Chachi González Colón, Raysa Rodrìguez Garcìa, and Salomé Cortés). Braziel offers art historical and geopolitical analyses of the urban street art in their cities of production, underscoring street art as political, economic, and environmental engagements (and not as exclusively aesthetic ones) with urban space and street life.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Caribbean studies, Latin American studies, and urban studies.
Street Art in the Greater Caribbean features in the following genres: History of art, Urban communities, Political campaigning and advertising, Industrialisation and industrial history, History of the Americas, Sociology, Regional / International studies, The arts: general topics
Street Art in the Greater Caribbean is available in Paperback, Hardback
Street Art in the Greater Caribbean was written by Jana Evans Braziel and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Street Art in the Greater Caribbean has 236 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Art and Politics series
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