Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text written by North American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is an account of the days in October 1930 that he spent in Rio de Janeiro, capital of Brazil at the time. Wright was invited to Brazil to participate in the jury to determine which [...]

The writer and poet Manuel Bandeira dispenses his opinions relating to the controversy stoked by attempts made by the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (Rio de Janeiro) to reform the teachings, artistic trends, and guidelines related to its exhibitions [...]

“Modernist” sculptor Celso Antonio arose from the arts scene in Rio de Janeiro during the 1930s; he was named a professor at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes by its director, architect Lúcio Costa, who was a member of the same movement. The [...]

This essay, written by Manuel Bandeira, is an assessment of the “Salão de 31” exhibition which also had been disparagingly tainted as the “Salão dos Tenentes” by another journalist, parodying the then Lieutenant Getúlio Vargas whom had [...]

In this essay, the poet and writer Manuel Bandeira writes a critical review of the Salão de 1928 exhibition organized by the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. The review was written to declare his rejection of the academic painters and the faculty of [...]

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This article by poet Manuel Bandeira condemns the forced resignation of architect and urbanist Lucio Costa as the director of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes after he had implemented reforms in instruction and in the Salão de 1931, widely known [...]

In this article, Lucio Costa discusses the changes he believes are necessary to facilitate an understanding of modern architecture: changes that while not necessarily rejecting the past do not conform to the academic point of view. The article [...]

During the modernization period at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA), the Instituto Paulista de Arquitetura (IPA) sent an official letter to the Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública to protest against the invitation issued by the [...]

The catalogue for the XXXVIII Exposição Geral de Bellas Artes notes the controversy stirred up by the emergence of “Brazilian modernism” in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1930s. That “movement” brought together a distinguished group of [...]