Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Mexican writer Martín Luis Guzmán critiques the contemporary art of the 1920s as “aesthetic childishness” for concentrating on desolation and misery, and for failing to address noble ideals. Guzmán criticizes the works he witnessed at a recent [...]

“La inconsciencia moral del indígena,” by Mexican writer Martín Luis Guzmán, published in the periodical El Universal in 1921, is a response to a previous article by Francisco Bulnes, a Mexican intellectual and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs [...]