Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is a review of the exhibition that was jointly presented by the artist Vicente do Rego Monteiro and the French art critic Géo Charles at the Teatro de Santa Isabel in Recife in 1930. The exhibition challenged the validity of works that were [...]

The poet Manuel Bandeira makes use of the image of “thinness” and is convinced that his city, Recife, has a “dryness” that is not evident at first sight. He notes that its special attraction lies in being “unadorned and bone-thin.” The [...]

Joaquim Cardozo analyzes the work of Telles Júnior, evaluating his continual and almost exclusive dedication to the native landscape of the state of Pernambuco. The author affirms that the artist is a “regionalist” in good measure, and that he [...]

In this overview of the national art scene, Marcelo Santos notes that art in the state of Pernambuco is facing a difficult time, partly as a result of the migration of artists from northeastern to southern Brazil (mainly to São Paulo and Rio de [...]

Antônio Franca distinguishes two great trends in his survey of Brazilian thought: traditionalism and “modernism.” He recognizes the continuity of these trends throughout the course of history, although in order to understand the Brazilian [...]

Gilberto Freyre identifies the seed of Brazilian regionalism in the Regionalist movement of Recife, which in his judgment was subtly preceded by Franklin Távora, Inglês de Sousa, Afonso Arinos, Alcides Maya, and reflected by Mário de Andrade and [...]

In this text, Mário de Andrade critically reflects on the French influence on Brazil, which was hegemonic in the second half of the 19th century, but mitigated, de Andrade argues, by the maturation of Brazilian culture. The author opposes the [...]

[In this text], the art historian Souza Barros (1903–1984) writes a naturalistic article based on documents and testimonials from the period. The writer describes the main aspects of the 1920s in the state of Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil) from a [...]

This is a summary of the accusations that Joaquim Inojosa leveled against Gilberto Freyre following the 1952 republication of the “Manifesto Regionalista” [1926]. According to Inojosa, the author changed the date of the manifesto in order to gain [...]

The sociologist Gilberto Freyre discusses the latest designs produced by the painter, and in this case, illustrator Vicente do Rego Monteiro, for the book about dance written by F. Divoire in Paris. In Freyre’s opinion, the artist here reveals his [...]

According to the Brazilian sociologist, Gilberto Freyre, Franciscan nominalism constituted the scientific training of Europeans, especially the Portuguese. This was particularly true with reference to the fifteenth-century discoveries that led to the [...]

In this article, Gilberto Freyre outlines some of his thoughts about an exhibition of work by Cícero Dias—in the city of Feira de Santana, sixty kilometers from Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia. The reason for the text was due to a [...]

In this text [dated November 14, 1964], the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre states that European culture has to some extent been influenced by tropical culture. In his opinion, “England today is showing the impact of the tropical arts within [...]

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