Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Luis Miró Quesada Garland enumerates the main formal virtues of the works in the exhibition of Surrealism held at the Galería de Lima in July 1954. In his view, the show reflects none of the movement’s initial aggressiveness in [...]

This essay by the critic Jaime Cerón appeared in the catalogue for the exhibition Ruven Afanador presented at Fotomuseo in 2002. Cerón divides his essay into three sections, as follows: i) “Entrada” [Entrance], in which he describes photography [...]

This article was issued by the European branch of the El Universal Ilustrado agency in Paris. According to Pierre Mac-Orlan, photography was an experimental art that would lead to an understanding of mankind. In his opinion, both the phonograph and [...]