Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this document, the Club de Grabado de Montevideo (CGM, founded in 1953) announces that it has purchased a property to be used as its headquarters. The text provides an overview of the club’s achievements and outlines its aims, among them [...]

This is a report on how artists at the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) dealt with new techniques designed for the reproduction of images. The report reviews new printing systems, such as offset, and mentions the increasing popularity of silk [...]

This is a review of the financial situation at the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo, founded in 1953) in early 1983, at a time when, after ten years of civilian-military dictatorship, Uruguay appeared to be easing its way toward a democratic future [...]

The April/May 1983 issue (Nº 16) of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo’s newsletter begins with an open invitation to the Mini Grabado Internacional de Cadaqués (on the Costa Brava in Spain, in August 1983). There is a reference to the CGM members [...]

This article describes and analyzes the role of the “recipient” of the various messages expressed by the visual arts. At the end of the dictatorship period (1973–85), Uruguayan artists once again sought to come to grips with the question of [...]

This informative and didactic article, published by the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo), describes and explains a range of art styles that emerged and were developed in the United States and Europe after the Second World War. Referring to the [...]

This essay discusses the function of art criticism. The objective is to present a theoretical comparison between what criticism “should be” and the actual situation in Uruguay, especially during the period of authoritarian rule when the essay was [...]

The artist Luis Mazzey, a member of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo, where he was also an instructor, was interviewed a few days after his 86th birthday. He provides an overview of his career and his ideas concerning the artistic nature of [...]

This is the second part of the interview with the artist Óscar Ferrando, the Secretary General of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo. The main subject of the interview is the trip that Ferrando took to several cities in the United States as a guest [...]

This is the first part of an interview in which Óscar Ferrando, the Secretary General of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo, discusses his trip to the United States (to Washington, Chicago, and New York) as a guest instructor from the Instituto [...]

The article titled “Opiniones I” in the Boletín N° 12 (1982) published by the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) provides the Uruguayan reader with an appraisal of the current state of contemporary art, which the author claims is facing a [...]

This printed, folded sheet of paper provides a chronological history of the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) that spans its first thirteen years of operation, from 1953 to 1966. It includes a report on the Club’s sources of inspiration in the [...]

The CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) issued a number of publications in honor of its twenty-second anniversary. This flier includes several topics: a tribute to the maestro and artist Luis Mazzey in celebration of his 80th birthday; a program of [...]

The announcement in the Boletín Nº 10 issued by the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo, founded in 1953) includes a description of the Club’s organization and means of support, and a reference to its membership in the recently formed Confederaci [...]

The Club de Grabado de Montevideo’s Boletín N° 7 (June 1965) contains several sections. The first one, “Escuela” [School], describes the growth of the CGM and the need for a team of instructors to educate the Club’s members in printmaking [...]

When news reached Montevideo that the artist Carlos Fossatti had died in France, the Boletín del Club de Grabado de Montevideo published a review of his life and work. Fossatti was the CGM’s ideological guide in the mid-1960s, and one of the top [...]

On the twenty-second anniversary of the launch of its institutional program, the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) published a report in its Boletín, describing its founding objectives and the various strategies it had chosen to accomplish them. [...]

In Nuestra institución, the flier it published in 1970, the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) relates its ideological positions to the socio-political conditions in Uruguay at the end of the 1960s. The text includes information concerning the [...]

The report published in 1956 by the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) provides information on the institution’s objectives. In the group’s opinion, prints can be used to reach a range of different audiences and address a broad spectrum of [...]

This document consists of the submission guidelines for the print competition held in 1978 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Club de Grabado in Montevideo. The topics covered by the guidelines include the type of prints [...]