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Abstract: This thesis considers the work of eight contemporary artists who, by
virtue of their biographies, have been situated on one side or another of two highly
fraught border sites marked by their liminal, mutable character, namely the U.S.-Mexico
border and the oceanic "border" space separating the island of Cuba from its diaspora.
Taking urban geographer Edward W. Soja's notion of ... read more"Thirdspace" as a point of departure,
artworks by these Cuban, Mexican, Cuban-American, and Mexican-American artists are analyzed
dialogically within three frameworks based on paradigms frequently employed in the study of
Latin/o American art: borderlands, exile, and hybridity. Artists include Rubén Ortiz
Torres, Teresa Margolles, Delilah Montoya, Sandra de la Loza, Sandra Ramos, Carlos
Garaicoa, Ernesto Pujol, and Leandro Soto. This thesis endeavors to temporarily fracture
the binaries generated by these spaces, thereby building upon existing literature that
considers these artists predominantly in relation to ethnicity or
nationality.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2013.
Submitted to the Dept. of Art and Art History.
Advisor: Adriana Zavala.
Committee: Peter Probst, and Pedro Ángel Palou.
Keywords: Art history, and Latin American studies.read less
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