Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics

In Latinx Art Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and artists. Providing an inside and critical look of the global contemporary art market, Dávila's book is at once an introduction to contemporary Latinx art and a call to decolonize the art worlds and practices that erase and whitewash Latinx artists. Dávila shows the importance of race, class, and nationalism in shaping contemporary art markets while providing a path for scrutinizing art and culture institutions and for diversifying the art world.

Author: Arlene Dávila
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781478009450
ISBN10: 1478009454
BISAC Categories:
- Art | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Art | Business Aspects
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies

About the Author
Arlene Dávila is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at New York University and the author of several books, including El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America, Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility across the Neoliberal Americas, and Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race.