Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This chapter gathers texts in which the Colombian ecclesiastical authorities established their position with respect to Carlos Correa’s painting, La Anunciación [The Annunciation] (1941)—painting withdrawn from the II Salón Anual de Artistas [...]

Teresa Tejada describes the mural with a religious theme that artist Juan Antonio Roda painted in the dome of the apse of the church Nuestra Señora del Sagrado Corazón in Bogotá. Tejada discusses the formal values of the work, which she asserts [...]

This article outlines writer Jorge Cuesta’s position on the establishment of new educational, cultural and artistic principles, allowing us to glimpse his critique of José Vasconcelos and his romantic ideas about a university for the people; the [...]