Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay by Gilberto Freyre is on the characteristics of the work of Francisco Brennand. The author believed that the overall approach proposed was a synthesis of tropical aesthetics, that the art as well as the sculpture by Brennand was a [...]

This is a summary of Gilberto Freyre’s thoughts on the subject of Latin America, with a focus on the cultural anthropological aspects of a hybrid civilization based on a blend of black, American Indian, and European traditions. The author discusses [...]