Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar informs Ricardo Alegría, director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), of his reasons for not being interested in participating in the selection committee for the Bienal de San Juan de Grabado [...]

The exiled Cuban critic living in Puerto Rico, Samuel Cherson, comments on both the positive and negative aspects of the X Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [10th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art [...]

In this essay, North American educator and poet Muna Lee de Muñoz Marín discusses the restoration work and artistic career of Franz Howanietz, a Viennese painter who lived in Puerto Rico. In 1935, Howanietz restored paintings from the Degetau [...]

The Argentine critic Damián Bayón, who lived in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, claims that the exodus of Latin American artists was good for their aesthetic education. He adds that some artists left their countries when they were very young and were [...]

The Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell reports that the Caribbean art community currently receives a great deal of information that used to be hard to find. This prevents the Caribbean artist from being totally isolated. Martorell advocates [...]

The Argentine critic Damián Bayón, who lived in Puerto Rico during the 1950s, believes that the five-year hiatus in the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art] was harmful to the event. [...]

Puerto Rican historian Teresa Tió offers a brief overview of the history of the poster in Puerto Rico, from the time it arrived on the island until 1985. She analyzes the importance of the Puerto Rican poster and how it can be used to study Puerto [...]

In this historical overview, artist José A. Torres Martinó describes how he and fellow Puerto Rican artist Félix Rodríguez Báez opened a studio called Estudio 17 in the late-1940s. Other artists joined their efforts and together they founded the [...]

Puerto Rican artist and printmaker Antonio Martorell offers an overview of important events in 1950s Puerto Rico. During that period, artists and writers strove to “affirm the threatened national identity and language, point out and question an [...]