Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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This is the first article by the writer César Miró about efforts to create an official image of Túpac Amaru II, the indigenous hero of Peruvian independence, to be used as an icon during the first phase of the self-styled Gobierno Revolucionario [...]

This is an anonymous editorial published in the newspaper Expreso that describes the mistrust of the conservative sectors as a “conspiracy” against the revolutionary government (Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas) of Peru. The matter [...]

On the basis of the reforms enacted by the military government under General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968–75), José Acevedo criticizes capitalist models of education as well as the total unfeasibility of art as a professional career and/or the [...]

This newspaper article reports on the expressed opinions regarding the result of the third national competition that was organized to choose a design for a monument to José Gabriel Condorcanqui (Túpac Amaru II), the indigenous leader of Peruvian [...]

This is the official transcript of the speech given by General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the president of the Peruvian military junta, at the closing ceremony of the thirty-ninth Congreso Internacional de Americanistas in Lima in August 1970. He used [...]