Description
This brand-new bi-lingual Spanish/English volume celebrates the art and career of the Bronx-born (b. 1956), Nuyorican artist, Manny Vega.
Manny Vega’s art can be found in the form of mosaics and murals adorning street walls, subway stations, cultural centres, and business facades throughout New York’s East Harlem. This lushly illustrated volume covers the full range of Vega’s artistic output, from carefully crafted mosaics, including female figures and stylized album covers, to prints and works on paper. This bi-lingual Spanish/English study also incorporates essays that explore Vega’s relationship with New York, murals as a medium, and the links between his work and music. Throughout the volume, Vega’s focus on the Puerto- Rican experience in New York shines through and highlights the influence of the city’s cultural mix on his unique art.
Angel ‘Monxo’ López is curator of Community Histories, Museum of the City of New York
Ágnes Berecz is associate professor, Pratt Institute, NY
David Gonzalez is poet, playwright, storyteller, musician, artivist and keynote speaker
Andrea Myers Achi is associate curator of Byzantine Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Table of contents
- Foreword / Prólogo by Stephanie Hill Wilchfort
- The Mannyverse or the Respelling of America / El Mannyverso o la reescritura de los Estados Unidos by Angel “Monxo” López
- Spirit / Espiritu
- Time Is on His Side: With Stone and Patience, Manny Vega Enshrines El Barrio / El tiempo está de su lado: con piedra y paciencia, Manny Vega consagra El Barrio by David González
- Family / Familia
- “El Tambor Llama”: The Drum in the Sacred and Secular Imagery in the Artwork of Manny Vega / “El tambor llama”: el tambor en las imágenes sagradas y seculares de la obra de Manny Vega by Elena Martínez and Bobby Sanabria
- Musicians and Dancers / Musicos y Bailarines
- Manny Vega, Urban American / Manny Vega, Americano urbano by Ágnes Berecz
- Public Art / Arte Publico
- Reverence and Enthusiasm / Reverencia y entusiasmo by John Ahearn
- Feminine Divine / La Divinidad Femenina
- Killing Time / Matatiempos
- Byzantium in Manny / Bizancio en Manny by Andrea Myers Achi
- Beadwork / Trabajo con Cuentas
- Characters / Personajes
- Endnotes
- Selected Bibliography
- Photo Credits
- Index
