Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario Jiménez Quispe

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. -- Frank O. Mora, Florida International University
The Peruvian-born artist Nicario Jiménez is internationally recognized for his extraordinary, highly detailed retablos that address personal, traditional, religious, social, historical, and political events. This volume celebrates the art form by focusing on Jiménez’s immigration retablos; from the harrowing scenes along the Mexico-US border to an emphasis on the accomplishments of immigrants once settled in the United States. Jiménez’s art reminds viewers of the humanity of the demonized individuals escaping violence back home in hopes of securing a better future for themselves and their families. -- Marina Pacini, chief curator of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
The authors of this compelling work use Nicario Jiménez’s art as visual testimonies of migration policies in the Trump era. Jiménez himself has been in continuous movement, locating himself in Ayacucho, Lima, and the rest of the world. Through his retablos, he vividly portrays what migration, uprooting, and displacement mean to the person who leaves and arrives in a new place of residency—he shows the violence conveyed, the lived experiences, the hope. -- María Eugenia Ulfe, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Beautifully illustrated with Jiménez Quispe’s own work, and enhanced with insightful text by Damian, LaRosa, and Stein, Immigration in the Visual Art of Nicario JimenezQuispe should be read, admired, and imitated in terms of its rescue of and research into folk art and its evolution across the Americas. * Journal of American Folklore *