Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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This article describes the 1967 exhibition about objective art held in Montevideo at the General Electric Institute that included work by Carlos and Enrique Fernández Broglia, Amalia Polleri, Nelson Ramos, Washington Barcala, and Luis Alberto Solari [...]

This essay praises the uniform quality of the work presented during the eighth Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes of 1944 in Uruguay. It also analyzes the grand prize awarded in that annual exhibition to Joaquín Torres García for painting, as well as [...]

While art critic Jorge Romero Brest’s influence was international in scope, it was particularly great in Latin America and the Río de la Plata region. His regional prestige as a lecturer was also considerable and, in 1940, he was invited to give a [...]

This essay posits the concept of “geometría sensível” [Sensitive Geometry] as one of the unitary characteristics of contemporary Latin American art, and notes the growing interest (within the region and further afield) in [...]