Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, Barboza Leite identifies the artists who contributed to the founding of the SCAP (Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas) from 1941 to 1949, when the association was launched. He provides a detailed description of the endemic [...]

According to Tadeu Chiarelli, contemporary international art has moved away from personal expression and embraced an industrial aesthetic. This is the result of a serial, modular logic that rejects any attempt to stress the physical and chemical [...]

In this text Aluízio Medeiros praises the artist’s sense of social responsibility, calling for a more committed form of art and challenging the idea of “art for art’s sake” that merely leads to evasiveness among artists and intellectuals. He [...]

This document records an informal conversation between the art critic Mário Baratta and the Brazilian artist Aldemir Martins. They discuss the motives that led him to join the lengthy list of internal migrants leaving the state of Ceará [...]

This text is the preface by Eduardo Menezes to the book Xilógrafos de Juazeiro, which addresses the use of woodcuts in northeastern Brazil, particularly in representations of the tension between dominant and subaltern cultures. The author briefly [...]

This is a letter published in the newspaper O Estado by the art critic Mário Baratta, written posthumously to the modernist poet Mário de Andrade, a year after his death. Baratta wanted to convey to the reader a hypothetical letter that he would [...]

This essay, “Cordel - A Novelística Nordestina” by Geová Sobreira, suggests that literatura de cordel—the genre of published writing known as “string literature”—is an expression of an intrinsically novelistic tradition. It is a [...]

This text is issue zero of Clã - Revista Trimestral magazine, in which the members introduce the publication. In their opinion Clã is not only a literary magazine; it also constitutes what they consider “a mental representation of Ceará,” [...]

Essay written by artist Nilo de Brito Firmeza (better known as Estrigas) about the role Mário Baratta played in the development of the artistic scene in the State of Ceará during the 1930s and 1940s. The author’s descriptions of the events of [...]

Mário Baratta references the quietness of the art world in Fortaleza, Brazil, the capital of the state of Ceará, during the dark period of the Second World War. He became acquainted with the Swiss artist Pierre Chabloz, who had settled there in [...]

Writer Eduardo Campos defends future theatrical works with a “regionalist” theme. He suggests the use of themes linked to the Northeastern region of the country, where man’s struggle for survival (in a hostile and desert-like environment) is [...]

Heloisa Juaçaba briefly discusses the work of Raimundo Cela, mentioning the essay written by Teixeira Leite about the artist’s graphic work, and describing the activities undertaken by the Casa-Museu Raimundo Cela to encourage young artists in the [...]

The essay “Traços Históricos do Desenvolvimento da Pintura em Fortaleza” [Historical Features of the Development of Painting in Fortaleza, Capital of Ceará] by Fátima Montezuma provides an overview of the history of art from the state of Cear [...]