Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jimenez QuispeAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 12 September 2019
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This beautifully illustrated book explores the links between art and the experience of immigration from Latin America to the United States. The authors use the powerful retablos of Peruvian artist Nicario Jimenez Quispe, who now lives and works in the United States, to offer creative new insights on the bitter debates that are dividing our nation.
Art meets today's political debate over immigration in this beautifully illustrated exploration of Nicario Jimenez Quispe's retablos. This beautifully illustrated full-color book offers a unique depiction of the current immigration debate through the lens of renowned Peruvian artist Nicario Jimenez Quispe, a recent immigrant to the United States. An internationally recognized maker of retablos, Jimenez has begun 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, a retablo traditionally was used to pay homage to certain saints in Peru. In Spain, they were used as portable altars for itinerant priests who carried them to perform mass in remote areas. In the Andes, the retablo became a sort of magical-religious box designed to increase fertility among animals that served as a means of exchange in a cash-free, rural environment. The authors, leading historians of Latin America, contextualize Jimenez's compelling art, to offer creative new insights on the bitter immigration disputes that are dividing our nation.
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