Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

After a long reflection about the meaning of the mask—an inherent content of education that civilization imposes upon mankind—Febronio Ortega shows the avant-garde work realized in Paris by Germán Cueto. According to him, the new masks by the [...]

This article was issued by the European branch of the El Universal Ilustrado agency in Paris. According to Pierre Mac-Orlan, photography was an experimental art that would lead to an understanding of mankind. In his opinion, both the phonograph and [...]

Renato Molina Enríquez praises the “mural decoration” that Carlos Mérida painted on the ground floor of the SEP (Ministry of Public Education), in the Biblioteca Infantil [Children’s Library] annex of the main library. The theme for the mural [...]

The author reproduced an article originally published in the newspaper El Tiempo on June 6, 1885, regarding the history of masonry in Mexico; he lists the different lodges, from the founding of the first in 1806 to 1885, the date of the article’s [...]

Painter Carlos Mérida thanks and praises Alfredo Ramos Martínez, who was then director of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, for organizing a series of exhibitions that would influence the artistic development of Mexico. In the introduction to [...]