Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This document was published in the Colombian cultural magazine piedepágina [Footer] (2004–7); it includes the artist Alberto Baraya’s account of his travels up the Putumayo and Amazon rivers on a Colombian military boat as a documentary maker [...]

This text is an introduction to the iconography addressed in O Brasil dos Viajantes, a project that encompassed research and an exhibition of Brazilian images made by European travelers to that country from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. [...]

After his 1924 trip to Brazil, the Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars wrote this book in which he describes the journey taken by the group of São Paulo modernists headed by Oswald and Mário Andrade. This sojourn within the Brazilian interior sowed the [...]