El Puerto Rican Passport, El Spirit Republic de Puerto Rico: Adál Maldonado
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Object Details
- Artist
- ADÁL, born Utuado, Puerto Rico 1948-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 2020
- Exhibition Label
- Across decades of multimedia work, ADÁL foregrounded music as exemplary of a "Nuyorican" culture that keeps Puerto Rican roots alive in New York, while reinventing them to powerfully contribute to the fabled melting pot of America.
- In El Puerto Rican Passport, ADÁL and collaborators emphasize imagination as key to overcoming the colonizing forces that have blocked self-determination for the island. The central manifesto points to forms of creativity that transcend borders, especially music and dance, as evidence of the independence and resilience of an already existent "sovereign state of mind."
- Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies 2023
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
- Copyright
- © 2012, ADÁL
- 1994
- Object number
- 2013.19.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Graphic Arts-Book
- Medium
- lithography with photograph in staple-bound booklet
- Dimensions
- closed: 5 x 3 1/2 in. (12.7 x 8.9 cm) open: 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_2013.19.1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk780493b33-225c-488c-be91-6c478aebb419
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