Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this chapter from América Latina en sus artes Jorge Alberto Manrique begins by describing the artistic movements of the 1920s and comparing this period to a giant hinge that moved backward to the nineteenth century and forward to the twentieth [...]

The Mexican historian and art critic Jorge Alberto Manrique discusses the concept and the definition of both “Latin America” and “Latin American-ness” within the context of the visual arts. He bases his ideas on Simón Bolívar’s theory [...]

In this essay, originally published in 1970, Jorge Alberto Manrique points out that in the 1950s the Mexican School of Painting began to stagnate in terms of both form and motifs. However, official support allowed it to maintain its control of the [...]