Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe

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.

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.

• AcknowledgmentsForeword: Continuity and Change in a Traditional Art Form, by Annette B. Fromm ix1 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 ImmigrationConclusion: Beyond the WallSelected BibliographyIndex About the Authors