Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay, written by art historian Tere Romo, traces the use of the image of La Malinche (Hernan Cortés’s translator and mistress) by Mexican and Chicana/o artists, beginning with the indigenous codices and continuing into contemporary art. She [...]

In this bilingual essay, Chicana art historian and curator Tere Romo delineates three distinct periods of poster production, tracing the factors that shaped the development of iconography and visual styles, as well as the varying degrees to which [...]

In this essay, Tere Romo explores the syncretic nature of Chicano spirituality manifested in Chicano art and rooted in the initial encounter between indigenous American cultures and Europe, as well as in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. [...]