Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text is part of El gran solipsismo, Juan Luis Martínez. Obra visual (Santiago: Editorial Puntángeles, 2002), the collection of essays written by the researcher José de Nordenflycht. The author considers the work in question [...]

In this essay, the Brazilian poet Philadelpho Menezes pinpoints the origins of visual poetry, coining an expression to classify its forms, “intersign poetry.” He observes that visual poetry is not a synonym for “Concrete poetry,” even if that [...]

This is a visual poem by the Mexican draftsman Marius de Zayas, in collaboration with the United States writer Agnes Ernst Meyer. Based on a poem by Meyer, De Zayas produced this “psycho-type” whose belated translation into Spanish was written by [...]

The text analyzes Xul Solar’s career, keeping in mind that his life was an ongoing effort to penetrate the unknown. Pellegrini’s essay proposes a periodization of his artwork, even though each phase does not necessarily mean a total rupture with [...]