Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The Cartilla de dibujo [Drawing Handbook], published in Bogotá in 1935 by the artist Miguel Díaz Vargas, was essentially created for teaching drawing in elementary school. The book’s structure is clearly pedagogical. It has a brief introduction [...]

This is a description of the Curso de Composição, the composition course for seven classes that the architect Jacob Ruchti taught at the IAC (Instituto de Arte Contemporânea) at the MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo). The professor explains that [...]