Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Ramón Alva de la Canal painted the first version of El Café de Nadie [No Man’s Café] in 1924. After it disappeared, he decided to paint the scene again, but this time he introduced some new elements. To illustrate it, he included the names of [...]

Five years after their first manifesto Actual [see doc. 737463 and doc. 754048], Germán List Arzubide recounted the early activity of the estridentista group. The author began with a description of the group’s leader, the poet Manuel Maples Arce. [...]

This is a poetic review tracing the history of the invention of that meeting place taken over by the Estridentista movement. They consider it their meeting place for appropriate get-togethers, their planning quarters for their actions against [...]

This is a partial summary of the first estridentistaparty with masks, paintings, watercolors, and drawings on walls. Arqueles Vela participates by telling about the history of that meeting space; in addition there are poetic interventions such as [...]