Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, the Cuban philosopher/historian Jorge Mañach carries on the debate about avant-garde art that he had started in two articles previously published by the journal. This time, the Revista de avance editor responds directly to what [...]

Eugenio Dittborn discusses Nelly Richard’s book, Margins and Institutions. Art in Chile Since 1973 (1986), condensing his review into four brief comments. The first considers the text as a “lengthy written work,” which contributes [...]

In this essay Nelly Richard discusses the connection between writing and the reader, the implicit recipient of a text. In this review of the reader, she takes a sociological approach in describing and assessing the target of a text; counter to that [...]

This anonymous essay, published in the magazine La Bicicleta in 1979, is a review of the Seminario Arte Actual, an event that was directed by Nelly Richard and organized for the purpose of stimulating an open discussion on the subject of contemporary [...]