Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this letter to critic Fernando García Esteban, José Cúneo celebrates the recent publication of the critic’s Panorama de la plástica contemporánea uruguaya (Montevideo: Editorial Alfa, 1965). Cúneo then explains his ideas about color in the [...]

After Oscar Ferrando, the secretary of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo (CGM), visited the Escola de Artes Visuais do Rio de Janeiro, Rubens Gerchman, the director of that school in Rio, expressed his interest in organizing a number of exchanges [...]

Uruguayan thinker, educator, and artist Pedro Figari—who had lived in Buenos Aires since 1920—supports the creation of the journal La Cruz del Sur in Uruguay in an article that reaffirms his stance against cultural colonialism. He also advocates [...]