Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe
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Overview
Art meets today’s political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jiménez Quispe’s retablos.
This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the creative gaze of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jiménez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jiménez is creating work that powerfully encapsulates the struggles, possibilities, and tragedies of immigration from the Global South to North America.
A decorative box with figures in the interior, the retablo in the Andes became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among the herds owned by the local peasant population. These boxes served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. Now reimagined by Jiménez, the retablo offers compelling insights into the bitter immigration disputes dividing our nation.
Full-color
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Art Form, by Annette B. Fromm ix
1 By Way of Introduction
2 The Retablo: Testimony, Tradition, and the Case for Fine Art in Popular Culture
3 A Corporal and Artistic Migration: The Peruvian Years
4 Art Questions Politics: An American Challenge
5 Promise and Hope: The Other Side of Immigration
Conclusion: Beyond the Wall
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
The authors of this insightful book offer an original entry into the current immigration debate through the eyes and work of the renowned Peruvian artist/sculptor Nicario Jiménez Quispe. The images of Jiménez’s retablos offer an innovative way of capturing the suffering of the displaced. This book is an inimitable contribution to the debate.
The Peruvian-born artist Nicario Jiménez is internationally recognized for his extraordinary, highly detailed retablos that address personal, traditional, religious, social, historical, and political events. This volume celebrates the art form by focusing on Jiménez’s immigration retablos; from the harrowing scenes along the Mexico-US border to an emphasis on the accomplishments of immigrants once settled in the United States. Jiménez’s art reminds viewers of the humanity of the demonized individuals escaping violence back home in hopes of securing a better future for themselves and their families.
The authors of this compelling work use Nicario Jiménez’s art as visual testimonies of migration policies in the Trump era. Jiménez himself has been in continuous movement, locating himself in Ayacucho, Lima, and the rest of the world. Through his retablos, he vividly portrays what migration, uprooting, and displacement mean to the person who leaves and arrives in a new place of residency—he shows the violence conveyed, the lived experiences, the hope.
Beautifully illustrated with Jiménez Quispe’s own work, and enhanced with insightful text by Damian, LaRosa, and Stein, Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario JimenezQuispe should be read, admired, and imitated in terms of its rescue of and research into folk art and its evolution across the Americas.
Product Details
- Title : Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe
- Authors:
- Damian, Carol
- LaRosa, Michael J.
- Stein, Steve
- Fromm, Annette
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781538128534
Carol Damian is professor of art history (retired) at Florida International University in Miami. Damian is the founding director (2008–2014) of the Frost Art Museum on the campus of FIU. Her specialty is Latin American and Caribbean art with a focus on colonial Andean art.
Michael J. LaRosa is associate professor of history at Rhodes College, Memphis. LaRosa, a specialist in modern Colombian history, has coauthored books with the Colombian historian Germán R. Mejía, among others.
Steve Stein is professor emeritus of history at the University of Miami, Coral Gables. He has published widely on the contemporary history of Peru. His most recent work focuses on the history of wine and wine making in Latin America.