Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Here Fernando Cocchiarale discusses how the fields of contemporary art have overflowed past their previous boundaries, going beyond painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing; he cites collage and photomontage in the early twentieth century as [...]

This text by noted poet Murilo Mendes presents the book Pintura em Pânico, made of photomontages created by another poet, Jorge de Lima. The author calls the reader’s attention to the challenging nature of the works presented, stating that the [...]

The pamphlet for the solo show of works by Álvaro Barrios at the Galería Marta Traba includes a photo of the artist as a cutout figure; the document signed by the artist and the painter-witness Norman Mejía granting power to the art critic Marta [...]

In this short article, the Puerto Rican artist Roberto Alberty, also known as “el Bochio,” explains that he currently uses frottages [rubbings], collages, and photomontages in his work, adding that he uses cigarette ash to create the frottages. [...]

This is the cover for the magazine Frente a Frente [Front to Front] (Mexico City January 1938) published by the LEAR (Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios) [League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists]; it included a photomontage by Lola Á [...]

Antonio Berni states his position on hyperrealism; he mentions the work of his surrealist stage in order relate the mechanisms of creation for photomontage and the collages from his Juanito Laguna series [...]

In this article, the writer Mário de Andrade discusses the photomontages of poet Jorge de Lima. In the opinion of de Andrade, photomontage can be considered a new medium for lyrical expression and an introduction to modern art. He thinks that those [...]

The text by Ronald Kay is presented as a written-visual statement in the quote from the edition of “El quebrantahuesos” that explored a form of experimental poetry, developed in 1952, which Kay here reclaims and editorializes. This essay outlines [...]