Review: This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin

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Book Review| April 01 2023 Review: This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, edited by Tie Jojima and Karen Marta. New York: Americas Society and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, 2022. 431 pages. Paperback $35.00. Niko Vicario Niko Vicario Amherst College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2023) 5 (2): 153–154. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.2.153 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Niko Vicario; Review: This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, by Aimé Iglesias Lukin. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 April 2023; 5 (2): 153–154. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.2.153 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search This book, published at the tail end of the two-part exhibition of the same name, expands on the doctoral dissertation research of Aimé Iglesias Lukin, the director and chief curator of the Americas Society. Both the exhibition and the book make valuable contributions to the study of art made in and in relation to New York City, to the history of art made by artists from Latin America, and to the body of scholarship tracing the transnational networks artists from the region circulated through during the late sixties and early seventies. As Uruguayan artist César Paternosto says, with ambiguous affective and political inflection, “It was in New York that I discovered that I was Latin American” (245). The idea that a Latin American identity and culture could be distilled among immigrants in a place outside the geographical boundaries of Latin America proper (13) resonates with studies by Michele Greet and... You do not currently have access to this content.