Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this article, Brazilian critic Marc Bercowitz reflects on the role of art criticism in Latin America, considering that a new group of young international-quality artists has emerged in Peru. Bercowitz perceives their understandable discontent at [...]

The article reports Herbert Read’s visit to Argentina for the I Bienal America de Arte [1st Latin American Art Biennial], held in Córdoba, at which he would serve as president of the jury. It also tells of his traveling to the Museo Nacional de [...]

This document reports on “El anarquismo en la sociedad capitalista" [Anarchism in a Capitalist Society], the lecture given by Herbert Read at the offices of the Federación Libertaria Argentina [Libertarian Federation of Argentina] in Buenos Aires [...]