Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

As coordinator of the art integration project Centro Médico Nacional [National Medical Center], Fernando Gamboa left evidence of his aesthetic ideas relating to the history of medicine and public health. In his notes, the curator held forth on the [...]

The Fine Arts Department of the Secretaría de Educación Pública [SEP, Ministry of Public Education] was the administrative body that grouped Mexican visual artists starting in the mid-1920s. Through this department, artists were linked to official [...]

In 1934, the La Sala de Arte [Art Hall] of the Departamento de Bellas Artes [Fine Arts Department] under the Secretaría de Educación Pública [SEP, Ministry of Public Education] issued an invitation to submit work for its first group exhibition of [...]

In this article written for The Architectural Forum, a New York City publication, in January 1934, the muralist Diego Rivera made public his point of view about the necessary link between architecture and painting. The purpose of the link was to [...]

The colonial building that housed the Museo de Higiene [Hygiene Museum], inaugurated on February 6, 1944, was the former Convent of the Nuns of Corpus Christi. After religious orders were expelled from Mexican territory, the building had different [...]

In 1944, the architect José Villagrán García, Supervisor of Hospital Projects and Construction at the Secretaría de Salubridad y Asistencia [Ministry of Health and Medical Care], declared that hospital buildings were architectural works and [...]

This document stands out from other articles published about the implementation of a hospital construction project because the writer places his view of the project in an international context. Based on an opinion issued by the Royal Institute of [...]