Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

After criticizing the selection made in the United States to represent Brazil at the Latin American Exhibition of Visual Arts that was held in New York during the 1939 World’s Fair, the great Brazilian polymath, Mário de Andrade continues by [...]

This text can be found in the catalogue for the first group exhibition by the Família Artística Paulista (FAP), held at the exclusive Hotel Esplanada in São Paulo in November 1937. This group was largely made up of self-taught artists—among them [...]

In this article, Oswald de Andrade claims there is an urgent need to create a modern art museum in the city of São Paulo, underscoring the fragile nature of and almost nonexistent institutional support for the Brazilian art system. De Andrade [...]

In this brief account, critic Paulo Mendes de Almeida surveys the origins, contributions, and the objectives of SPAM (Sociedade Pró-Arte Moderna), which was founded in São Paulo by artists, critics and collectors to strengthen connections between [...]

In September 1944 the Livraria Brasiliense in São Paulo held an exhibition of works by Francisco Rebolo. The art critic Lourival Gomes Machado, in his review, said that the work of artists identified as “people from a good Family”—a reference [...]