Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The introduction to Joaquín Torres García’s book, Universalismo Constructivo (published in Buenos Aires in 1944), was written two years earlier, and touches on many of the maestro’s fundamental ideas. It explains that his views are the result [...]

This essay by the curator Adolfo Wilson is divided into two parts. In the first part, Wilson reviews the history of painting since the Renaissance, presenting it as an imaginary expression of reality. That approach was steadily abandoned until the [...]

In this essay, Emilio Goyburu divides Western painting into periods on the basis of its “aesthetic facet.” He defines four “ages” that he envisions as a progression. In its “primitive” age—or genesis—painting acted as a “graphic [...]

This essay appeared in the catalogue for La sensación del tiempo humano. Homenaje a Giorgione, the exhibition of works by the Colombian artist Luis Hernando Giraldo (b. 1946) that was presented in March 1999 at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá. [...]

Dr. Atl calls upon us to analyze the post-revolutionary movement from its beginnings in 1908, when the first effective revitalizing influences reached Mexico from Europe. To him, the administration of General Porfirio Díaz—with its socially [...]