Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The critic Eduardo Dieste discusses Humberto Causa’s work shortly after the latter’s death. Dieste associates the Uruguayan painter’s work with a movement of renewal—known as planista—that swept the country in the 1920s. This style, which [...]

The essay “El drama de la pintura” is the first chapter of the book Teseo, Discusión estética y ejemplos, written by Eduardo Dieste, the Uruguayan essayist and playwright. In 1923, he helped to establish the group Teseo. In the before mentioned [...]

This essay is a chapter from the book by Eduardo Dieste, Teseo, discusión estética y ejemplos, published in 1925. Many of the chapters were articles that were published since 1923 in the magazine produced by Teseo (Agrupación de Artistas y [...]