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Sobre fotografía peruana actual : posibilidades de superar una depresión
1980In this review of contemporary Peruvian photography the author questions the attempt to divide the genre into two separate categories that make a distinction between artist photographers and lay photographers. Montalbetti claims that the discussion [...]ICAA Record ID: 1139634 -
El renacimiento indio por el arte
1927In this article the writer Humberto Suárez (who uses the pseudonym Kocha-Puma) profiles the photographer Martín Chambi. Suárez describes the city of Cuzco as an emblematic artistic center that indigenous artists should work to promote. He [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136775 -
Martín Chambi, artista neoindígena
1948In this complimentary document about the photographer from Puno, the writer José Uriel García describes Martín Chambi as a “neo-indigenous artist” whose ethnicity determines Chambi’s “intrinsic skills.” Drawing on his close connection [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136759 -
El pintor peruano José Sabogal
1936The aim of this article by José Uriel García, known throughout Peru for his book El nuevo indio, published in 1930, is to argue that José Sabogal is the emblematic contemporary Peruvian painter. Sabogal is, in García’s view, a founding figure [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136743 -
De la fotografía como funcíon estética : En torno al artista cusqueño Martín Chambi
1929In this newspaper article, Oscar Cerruto discusses the work of the photographer Martín Chambi. Cerruto refers to Benedetto Croce’s idealistic philosophical concept about expressive beauty, which he uses to defend the artistic nature of photography [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136726