Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This book is a collection of interviews with artists, critics, and cultural administrators who were active in the Antioquia region of Colombia, mostly during the 1970s. The prologue, by the historian Álvaro Tirado Mejía, begins with the emergence [...]

In these texts, Edmundo O’Gorman analyzes the historiography of America, and, in the process, argues that the idea of America has been an invention of history. In “Part 1,” he traces the considerable efforts by historians to uphold Columbus as [...]