Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This charter document lists the main cultural guidelines established by the self-styled Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas Peruanas (1968–80). The text, which is divided into several chapters, discusses a number of prior situations and [...]

These remarks were made by George Thomas, the Director of the Museo Contemporáneo de Arte Popular Peruano and curator of the national exhibition representing Peru at the XIV São Paulo Biennial. The selection consisted of works obtained from [...]

In this interview, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa criticizes governmental cultural plans during the first phase (1968–75) of the self-styled Gobierno Revolucionario de las Fuerzas Armadas del Perú. Vargas Llosa says the results of those plans have [...]

This is a newspaper review of the conversation organized by the INC (Instituto Nacional de Cultura) on February 19, 1976, between the Dutch painter Karel Appel and the following Peruvian writers and artists: Francisco Bendezú, José Bracamonte, Gast [...]

This editorial appeared in number 2/3 (1983) of the magazine U-tópicos: Entornoalovisual (Lima). The text refers to the ongoing failures of the Peruvian government’s cultural organizations over the course of two decades, including the “ [...]

In this letter published in the Lima-based newspaper La Prensa, a group of Peruvian visual artists expresses its opposition to the selection of folk art representing Peru at the twenty-fourth São Paulo Biennial held in 1977. The artists object to [...]