Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this essay, Flávio de Carvalho discusses the role that drawing has played in art, and its importance in establishing a contrast between composition and movement. The artist from São Paulo claims that the thickness of a line is to drawing what [...]

This is an editorial that was published in the Jornal Artes Plásticas, in São Paulo, in the 1940s, an essential period in terms of establishing museums in Brazil. This text is a record of the phenomenon that led to São Paulo’s construction of [...]

In this text published on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Arte en Colombia, Cuban critic Gerardo Mosquera emphasizes the effort involved in starting a journal specializing in Latin American art. He argues that this is [...]

Dr. Marta Moreno Vega’s editorial statement for the first issue of Caribe magazine lays out the aims and goals of the new publication. She states that Caribe will focus on Caribbean subjects that have been misinterpreted by colonizing powers. [...]

This essay discusses LEAR’s decision to establish a “Bureau Editor for Mexico” to publish the continent-oriented magazine, Sin Fronteras / All America—the roots of the future “Congreso Continental de Escritores y Artistas de Toda América [ [...]

This article defines the magazine Martín Fierro using criticism sent to Roberto Mariani in this publication; it was published by this same journal under the title “Martín Fierro y yo” [Martín Fierro and I]. His text emphasized four aspects [...]

As its title suggests, this article is an introduction to Ver y estimar. Cuadernos de crítica artística. The text explains that these notebooks were created “so that a group of scholars might fill their pages . . . with the results of the [...]

This text taken from the art news section of Signo [Sign] magazine, run by the art critic Leonardo Estarico, briefly reports on the activities of Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. These activities appeared not only in Contra [Against] magazine [...]

León Ferrari’s letter states that, after he exhibited some works whose content condemned the United States intervention in Vietnam, the newspaper La Prensa [The Press] accused him of being “communist.” Consequently he wrote his response that [...]

León Ferrari contributes drawings to Punto de Vista magazine. Ferrari discusses his work on the subject of religion, and mentions the founding of the Heathen’s Club [...]

Rafael Alberti proposes Escrito en el aire [Written in the Air] as the title of the book, and tells Ferrari about the publishing arrangements being made in Italy. He mentions the friends in Milan who will deliver the special edition [...]

León Ferrari discusses certain aspects of the press coverage of his book, Palabras ajenas [Other People’s Words]. He writes about the artistic milieu and the controversy stirred up by artists in response to the Torcuato Di Tella Institute’s [...]

This article announces the upcoming publication of the book Exposición de la actual poesía argentina (1922 –1927) [An Exhibition of Contemporary Argentinean Poetry], compiled by Pedro Juan Vignale and César Tiempo. The text also reproduces some [...]

This article examines from a critical perspective the latest issue of Martín Fierro. In the author’s judgment, the publication has become stale given that it has lost its initial “aggressiveness [...]

Rafael Alberti discusses the proofs of the drawings for Escrito en el aire [Written in the Air] as well as other matters concerning the publication of the book. He mentions Ferrari’s exhibition at the Lirolay Gallery (April 1 – 15, 1964), and his [...]

Rafael Alberti and his wife, María Teresa León, congratulated León Ferrari on the publication of his book Palabras ajenas [Other People’s Words] (Buenos Aires: Falbo Editor, 1967), reprinted in facsimile edition (Buenos Aires: El Aleph, 2003 [...]

The article explains the raison d’être of the magazine La Campana de Palo [The Wooden Bell], as well as its significance within the contemporary arts field. It presents itself as a “combative” undertaking that reacts “against the prudish [...]

This article offers a justification for the hiatus of La Campaña de Palo [The Wooden Bell], from its sixth issue of December 1925 up to its reappearance beginning precisely with this issue (September 1926). At the same time, Atalaya, the editor-in- [...]

This article by Atalaya reflects upon a text written by Guillermo de Torre entitled “Madrid, meridiano intelectual de Hispanoamérica” [Madrid: Intellectual Meridian of the Spanish Americas], published in La Gaceta Literaria [Literary Gazette] in [...]

Alfredo Chiabra-Acosta explains the significance of the title of La Campana de Palo [The Wooden Bell] magazine, distancing it from a possible link to the poem Martín Fierro by José Hernández in which the phrase “son campanas de palo las razones [...]

This article provides a brief definition and introduction to the magazine La Campana de Palo [The Wooden Bell], while also placing it within the artistic-literary milieu of Argentina [...]

The text reports on the context of the publication of Gustavo Riccio’s Un poeta en la ciudad [A Poet in the City]. It announces the reason for the book’s selection as well as the forthcoming publications by the series Biblioteca de La Campana de [...]

This article is a critique of Martín Fierro magazine for “having railed against the fact that none of our newspapers reported on Rainer’s death,” while that same publication did not take notice of the death of the Argentinean “poet” [...]

The text reports on the context surrounding the publication of Zancadillas [Missteps] by Alvaro Yunque (1926) within the editorial plan of La Campana de Palo [The Wooden Bell]. It also reports on forthcoming publications as well as the reasons and [...]

From Córdoba, Argentina, the Frente [Front] editorial committee sets forth the need for a culture magazine which is dedicated to critical debate on both scientific and artistic ideas. With regard to a display of the changes at work in the world at [...]

This article informs us that poet Oliverio Girondo “has departed to Europe…on a seminal mission of artistic and intellectual cooperation with the youth of [Latin] America and Latin Europe [sic].” Girondo mentions several publications (Martín [...]

This article explains what caused the publication Inicial to be divided, the result of “ideological and sentimental” divergences that compelled the resignation of three of the founders so that, in essence, “with this edition, INICIAL [sic] is [...]