This article, which is representative of the debates that took place in the 1990s, focuses on the question of the “transculturation” of Latin American art, an idea that coincides with (while differing from) the “multicultural” reading that circulated in European and North American circles. [For a broader reading on this subject, see the ICAA digital archive regarding an intermediate view that establishes Latin American art and derivative ideas on the basis of how to approach its historiography: “O entre-lugar do discurso latino-americano” (doc. no. 807968), “Os surtos modernistas” (doc. no. 808443), and “Reescrevendo a história da arte latino-americana” (doc. no. 808314)].
Lisbeth Rebollo Gonçalves is the president of the Associação Brasileira de Cíticos de Arte (ABCA) and works with the Universidade de São Paulo—where she is a professor at the ECA (Escola de Comunicações e Artes)—and the university’s Museu de Arte Contemporânea. She has written extensively on Brazilian art during the last five decades, focusing in particular on the artist Aldo Bonadei, the landscape painter Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian Constructivist art, and the permanent collections of several Brazilian museums. She has produced an exhaustive critical review of the art criticism of Sérgio Milliet. She led a group of researchers and specialized contributors to compile the book Arte Brasileira no Século XX, published in 2007.