Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean

Jana Evans (Miami University, USA) Braziel

Taylor and Francis 

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeines, Lexika

Beschreibung

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 Perez, "e;Jerry"e; Rosembert Moise, and Colectivo Morivivi (Chachi Gonzalez Colon, Raysa Rodriguez Garcia, and Salome Cortes). 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.

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Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean

Jana Evans (Miami University, USA) Braziel

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