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¿Artistas provocadores y delatores? : Los efectos de la intromisión corruptora del departamento de Estado Yanqui en la vida artística de nuestro país
1954The exhibition at Perls Gallery in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, presented Rufino Tamayo as one of the four great Mexican artists. His works were part of the great modernism and, unlike those of his colleagues, no Communist symbols could be found in [...]ICAA Record ID: 785817 -
"C.A.D.A. : A South American art"
1983This article by C.A.D.A. (Colectivo Acciones de Arte) describes the group’s participation in the IN/OUT exhibition in Washington, DC. Due to the international nature of the exhibition, the text points out differences, provides some context for [...]ICAA Record ID: 731898 -
"Califas" : Chicano art and culture in California : excerpts from planning grant submitted to the N.E.H.
1981This document contains excerpts from a grant proposal submitted by Eduardo Carrillo to the National Endowment for the Humanities seeking traveling support for an exhibition of California Chicano art entitled Califas, Chicano Art and Culture in [...]ICAA Record ID: 847475 -
"Casas/Houses"
1992On the occasion of the exhibition La casa de todos nosotros: Antonio Martorell y sus amigos [A House for Us All: Antonio Martorell and Friends] held at El Museo del Barrio in 1992, Puerto Rican curator Susana Torruella Leval analyzes Antonio [...]ICAA Record ID: 866589 -
"Introducción", Salón de Artistas Jóvenes : Patrocinado por la Unión Panamericana y Esso = "Introduction" Salon of Young Artists: Sponsored by Pan American Union and Esso.
1965This is the introduction to the catalogue for the Salón de Artistas Jóvenes Latinoamericanos [Young Latin American Artists Salon]—held at the Pan-American Union in Washington, DC in 1965. It was written by José Gómez Sicre, director of the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1091951 -
"Magnet - New York": conceptual, performance, environmental, and installation art by latin american artists in New York
1988In this article, scholar Carla Stellweg discusses the position of New York as the world art center during the 1960s and ‘70s, which attracted many artists from Latin America who came eager to experience its artistic effervescence firsthand. Through [...]ICAA Record ID: 841710 -
"Oh Colo how you perform contradiction? let we count the ways" : Martha Wilson in conversation with Papo Colo
1986In this conversation between Nuyorican artist Papo Colo, and feminist performance artist Martha Wilson, Colo describes his performances from 1976 to 1986 in chronological order. The conversation with her provides succinct descriptions of the [...]ICAA Record ID: 849850 -
"Serie de Cafe" Nitza Tufiño : "A Rafael Tufiño"
1981This essay, written by curator Susana Torruella Leval, provides a biographical overview of the careers of mural artist, Nitza Tufiño, and her father, Rafael Tufiño—a renowned Puerto Rican painter and printmaker. Leval describes the relationship [...]ICAA Record ID: 849746 -
"The Route of Friendship" : sculpture
1970Mathias Goeritz describes two projects proposed to the then-president of the organizing committee of the 19th Olympic Games, architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez: the International Meeting of Sculptors and The Route of Friendship. The artist describes [...]ICAA Record ID: 741733 -
[¿Quiénes levantaran el monumento a Posada?=Who will raise the monument to Posada?]
1930This issue contains more than 400 engravings by José Guadalupe Posada, with a preface by Diego Rivera, in which he redefines the engraver as a “worker,” “warrior of leaflets,” the “greatest artist” produced by the people, and the [...]ICAA Record ID: 757821 -
[Amalia Mesa- Bains: When I was asked to join the panel...]
1989This document is a transcript of the contribution to a panel discussion by the art historian, Amalia Mesa-Bains, in which she addresses the ways in which the social circumstances experienced by Chicanos in the United States have influenced their [...]ICAA Record ID: 1086109 -
[Arte es un estilo de vida...]
1969In this set of four brief poems, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, expresses his thoughts about painting and art. Some of the themes he addresses in his poems are related to defining art and its elements, and he also reveals [...]ICAA Record ID: 862843 -
[Artist Bibiana Suaréz's written statements for show "The Puerto Rican Equation" 1997]
1997This document contains Bibiana Suaréz's responses to four of the eighteen questions posed to artists by the organizers of The Puerto Rican Equation, an exhibition marking the occasion of the 1898 invasion of Puerto Rico by the United States. Suarez [...]ICAA Record ID: 867536 -
[Artist's Statement for Proposed Exhibition, 'In Search of an Island', April 1991]
1991In this artist statement for the exhibition In Search of an Island (1991), Bibiana Suarez discusses how her work reflects her search for self-identification and the problems of living between two cultures—that of Puerto Rico and the United States [...]ICAA Record ID: 1064446 -
[As an artist I'm not responsible to art history]
1980In these two brief articles, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, states that he feels no responsibility for art history. In other words, it is the artist’s privilege to call anything he creates whatever he wants to call it. De [...]ICAA Record ID: 863062 -
[Born in Puerto Rico, living there the first nine years of his life...]
1981Rafael Montañez Ortiz describes the assemblages of Marcos Dimas as an extension of the artist’s childhood experience of digging up bits of Taíno artifacts in the fields of Puerto Rico. Ortiz proposes that Dimas’s works are the result of his [...]ICAA Record ID: 802904 -
[Chicago Latino]
1992This exhibition catalog, Chicago Latino, was part of an intercultural dialogue initiated by two “socially-minded arts groups,” the 369 Gallery of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Near Northwest Arts Council of Chicago, Illinois. The exhibition [...]ICAA Record ID: 1056360 -
[Chicago State University observed the sixty sixth anniversary of the Mexican Revolution of 1910]
1979In this text, Victor Alejandro Sorell writes that Chicago State University observed the 66th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with a dedication of an eight-panel portable mural by Raymond Patlan entitled El Grito de la Raza Cósmica, [The Cry of [...]ICAA Record ID: 801909 -
[Colo emerges from a tradition that emphasizes and inventing of art more than a making of art]
1986This essay by curator Jeannette Ingberman analyzes ten years of work by Papo Colo in painting, sculpture, drawing, and performance. According to the author, Colo’s work explores the metaphysical and the spiritual, incorporating organic forms and [...]ICAA Record ID: 849870 -
[Comité Ejecutivo de la Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) to Joseph Freeman, National Secretary of the John Reed Club (JRC). Communique]
1935This communiqué outlines the growth of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (LEAR) [League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists] in the last ten months, explaining the organizational structure and activities. It highlights the [...]ICAA Record ID: 800989 -
[Current changes in modern society have many contrasting aspects,...]
In this essay, Italian critic Umbro Apollonio analyzes Jesús Rafael Soto’s vibrational work, particularly his production from the fifties. Apollonio starts out with a brief description of common, albeit distorted, perceptions of contemporary art. [...]ICAA Record ID: 1069781 -
[Depression limitates the creative activity...]
1967This is a quote from Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, which is accompanied by a pen and ink drawing: “Depression limitates [sic] the creative activity, deteriorates the involvement and mutilates the concept.” Written in [...]ICAA Record ID: 863157 -
[El siglo XIX estalla en una granada fantástica...]
1939In the introduction to this catalog, César Moro (a celebrated Peruvian poet and artist) alludes to the antecedents of Surrealism within the avant-garde movements of the beginning of the twentieth century. He also identifies the contact points that [...]ICAA Record ID: 752617 -
[Este Portafolio constituye la primera publicación del Taller Gráfico del Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño...]
1951This is the introduction to the first portfolio, published to commemorate the first anniversary of the Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño [Puerto Rican Art Center] (CAP) that was established in 1950 in San Juan. The essay describes the goals and [...]ICAA Record ID: 863957 -
[Extracts from 7th Annual Message of James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, Dated December 2, 1823]
1823In this 1823 speech, President James Monroe announces a new agreement that forbids European nations from invading countries in the Western Hemisphere. He begins by recounting that the agreement has been negotiated through the Russian government, and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1055512 -
[Fabiola Sequera abre un capítulo desconocido...]
1991In this text, curator William Niño Araque reflects on Fabiola Sequera’s sculpture on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Galería Astrid Paredes in Caracas in 1991. The curatorial essay proposes three approaches to a body of work that [...]ICAA Record ID: 1165647 -
[I began the Pachuco series in 1969,...]
1977This essay by Chicano artist, José Montoya, describes his experience developing and creating his Pachuco Artseries, which he began in 1969. Montoya notes the inspiration of artist Ricardo Favela and his use of the vato (slang for street dude) figure [...]ICAA Record ID: 809266 -
[I have always been an artist true to my calling]
2000In this short poem, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, explains why he has always been an artist, never paying any attention to other people’s opinion [of him]. In the poem, de Romero explains that his dedication is documented [...]ICAA Record ID: 850581 -
[I have often been questioned why the concern over which...]
1962This is the introduction to the 1st Latin American Art Biennial delivered by James F. McCloud, the President of the Biennial, at the opening of the event on June 26, 1962, at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes “Emilio A. Caraffa” in Córdoba, [...]ICAA Record ID: 777774 -
[I was born in Mexico City in 1941]
1971This document is a brief unpublished autobiographical statement by artist Carlos Almaraz. In it he discusses the early years of his life, from his birth in Mexico City and subsequent moves to Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, where he attended high [...]ICAA Record ID: 1083138 -
[In 1969 I exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum's contemporary Puerto Rican Artist Exhibit...]
In this short essay, Marcos Dimas discusses his participation in a 1969 group show of Puerto Rican artists at the Brooklyn Museum, where he displayed two paintings, and his first assemblage. He notes that he met the future cofounders of the Puerto [...]ICAA Record ID: 802934 -
[In Protuario histórico de Puerto Rico (Historica Compendium of Puerto Rico)...]
1992In this essay published in the 1992 exhibition catalog of Remerica! Amerika, Puerto Rican artist Enoc Perez discusses the effects of United States colonialism in the development of art in Puerto Rico. He observes that Puerto Rican artists have [...]ICAA Record ID: 799179 -
[In response to Judithe Hernandez...]
1981This letter by the art historian and critic Shifra M. Goldman responds to a letter from the Chicana artist Judithe Hernandez. The latter’s letter was responding to Goldman’s review of the exhibition Murals of Aztlán: Street Painters of East Los [...]ICAA Record ID: 847096 -
[Incontáveis artistas cuja produção se inclui... ] = [Countless artists whose production may be included...]
1979In this text, art critic Walter Zanini presents the show Multimedia Internacional. In it, he argues that art from the seventies was highly influenced by artists who privileged semantic concerns. They cast aside aesthetic subjectivity to take part in [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110891 -
[Latin American Art Today; Venezuela]
1961In this translated and edited text by Ralph E. Dimmick for a monograph on Venezuelan art as part of the series Art of Latin America Today, the critic and art historian Clara Diament de Sujo offers an overview of the state of art in 1961. In her [...]ICAA Record ID: 1214154 -
[Lecture, DePaul University, Chicago ]
1999In this lecture, the artist Bibiana Suarez recounts how a student's question prompted her to consider her own reasons for producing art; including the motivation of greed, which, although ostensibly negative, she considers as a motivator. Suarez [...]ICAA Record ID: 867458 -
[Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago]
1989In this lecture given in April 1989 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago-based, Puerto Rican artist Bibiana Suarez states that the value of art is dependent on its power to reveal the artist’s innermost world, and to preserve that [...]ICAA Record ID: 867517 -
[Let Us Pray]
2000In this short poem, Ralph de Romero, a Puerto Rican artist born in New York, criticizes a Christian prayer by repeating “blah, blah, blah, blah . . . ” to show his lack of interest in either prayers or the Ten Commandments. Romero concludes his [...]ICAA Record ID: 854299 -
[Letter, n.d], Sacramento, CA [to] the members of the Concilio de Arte Popular (CAP)
The document is an undated letter from Juan Carrillo, the interim board chairman of the Concilio de Arte Popular (CAP), to its members. Along with stating its founding history, purpose, names, and affiliations of the founding board members, the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1127127 -
[Letter] [n.d.], [s.l.] [to] Malaquias Montoya
1986This document is a handwritten letter in Spanish by Leo Tanguma and addressed to Malaquias Montoya. Tanguma informs Montoya of an art project he is planning to do in conjunction with the public school system in Denver, Colorado, to address the high [...]ICAA Record ID: 847496 -
[Letter] [n.d.], New York [to] El Museo del Barrio
In this typewritten open letter, the artist collective Taller Boricua [Puerto Rican Workshop], criticizes El Museo del Barrio for excluding the work of several New York-based Puerto Rican artists from an unnamed exhibition of Puerto Rican art jointly [...]ICAA Record ID: 841209 -
[Letter] 1935 December 23, México City [to] Edward Weston
1921In this letter, the painter [and writer] Roubaix de l’Abrie Richey, known by the pseudonym, “Robo,” the husband of the Italian artist and photographer, Tina Modotti, writes to Edward Weston from Mexico City. The writer is visiting Mexico in [...]ICAA Record ID: 806750 -
[Letter] 1935 December 4th, México D.F [to] League of American Writers
1935Juan de la Cabada reports on progress in organizing a Congreso Continental de Científicos [Scientists’ Continental Congress] in Mexico City under the direction of Víctor Manuel Villaseñor in accordance with the resolutions of the American [...]ICAA Record ID: 801625 -
[Letter] 1935 June 6th, México D.F. [to] New masses
1935This document proposes an exchange of publications between Frente a Frente and New Masses, but its main goal is to convince the North American publication to use its influence to help connect LEAR to the Association d’Écrivains et Artistes [...]ICAA Record ID: 801041 -
[Letter] 1935 Marzo 31 [to] Alan Calmer
1935This letter written by the Comité Ejecutivo of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios [Executive Committee of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists] was addressed to the American Writers’ Congress (AWC) in New York; it [...]ICAA Record ID: 807356 -
[Letter] 1936 December [to] Pollock, Sandy, Lehman
1936In this brief letter, David Alfaro Siqueiros advises Jackson Pollock and his team that the studio in New York will be closed during the day while he prepares for his forthcoming exhibition in Manhattan. Siqueiros explains that he needs to be alone to [...]ICAA Record ID: 751122 -
[Letter] 1960 July, Buenos Aires [to] Member
1960Invitation for members of The Society of British Artists to attend the Kenneth Kemble lecture on his artwork. He is introduced as a nonfigurative artist [...]ICAA Record ID: 741321 -
[Letter] 1967 Abril 14, Amsterdam [to] Samuel Paz
1967In this correspondence, E. de Wilde reports on his arrival in Buenos Aires, having departed from São Paulo (Brazil); it also offers some information regarding the reservation of passages for him and his wife [...]ICAA Record ID: 758071 -
[Letter] 1968 June 10, Buenos Aires [to] Harry E. Wilhelm
1968Enrique Oteiza informs the Ford Foundation that the Centro de Artes Visuales of the Instituto Torcuato Di Tella [Center of Visual Art of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute] regrets the episode that occurred with the authorities (both police and [...]ICAA Record ID: 759973 -
[Letter] 1969 December 23, New York [to] Rachel Conkright
1969This letter-report, dated December 23, 1969, was originally written in English by Stanton L. Catlin, an American curator and director of the Center for Inter-American Relations Art Gallery, New York, to Rachel Conkright, Gego’s gallerist in Caracas [...]ICAA Record ID: 1107344