Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Joaquim Cardozo analyzes the work of Telles Júnior, evaluating his continual and almost exclusive dedication to the native landscape of the state of Pernambuco. The author affirms that the artist is a “regionalist” in good measure, and that he [...]

Author Mário Pedrosa comments on the open letter of painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti to the president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Francisco “Ciccillo” Matarazzo, after the former withdrew from his trip to Italy to represent Brazil at [...]

This essay is about reaching a dead end in the nationalist project as well as the aesthetic requirements inherent in the avant-garde when modern art began to develop in Brazil. That development was launched with the 1917 exhibition by the painter [...]

In this essay, the well-known Argentinean critic Jorge Romero Brest attempts to assess national problems as they were understood by the most famous Brazilian artists, touching on a raw nerve concerning the differences between the art produced in [...]

According to the poet and critic Ferreira Gullar, the essential problem concerning the “national” nature of art is directly related to the cultural dependence of the country. By way of explanation, he suggests that this question would not arise [...]

This article is about the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes that was organized by the architect Lúcio Costa; it explains that the organizing committee decided that no submission would be rejected. This prompted the “old guard” artists to boycott [...]

This is a speech given by writer Aníbal Machado at the close of the Exposição de Arte Social, which he jointly organized with poet Álvaro Moreyra and artist Tomás Santa Rosa at the Clube de Cultura Moderna in Rio de Janeiro in 1935. Machado [...]

Gilberto Freyre, the sociologist from Pernambuco, discusses the I Congresso Afro-Brasileiro, held in Recife in 1934. Freyre briefly refers to comments and discussions concerning the viability of the meeting and the informality of the event, among [...]

This document describes the activities on the second day of the Semana de Arte Moderna event held in 1922. On this occasion (the second of three days) the focus was on literature in general. The document announced a: “Lecture by Menotti del [...]

This document is none other than the catalogue for the Semana de Arte Moderna, the event that was held in the Teatro Municipal in the city of São Paulo in 1922. The catalogue covered the entire festival and listed the hundred items that were [...]

The artist Flávio de Carvalho describes the circumstances that led to the founding of the CAM [Modern Artists Club] with the painters Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Carlos Prado, and Antonio Gomide. He also discusses the events and activities that defined [...]

In April 1942, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Semana de Arte Moderna [Modern Art Week] at the Teatro Municipal in São Paulo in 1922, Mário de Andrade gave a talk at the library of the Ministério das Relações [...]

The catalogue for the Exposição de uma casa modernista was written by the architect Gregori Warchavchik, creator of this radical project. Although it was controversial in the conservative milieu of the period, the project was fairly significant in [...]

Aracy Amaral presents the art of the Mexican muralists as the first manifestation of contemporary artists in the Americas which drew on the artists’ own local realities. She notes particularly the interest in muralist art by Brazilian artists such [...]