Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Kinetic artist Julio Le Parc considers the work of Gontran [Guanaes] Netto, from Paris, the city where he resides. He begins with an analysis of a context in which artists seek individual recognition, which in Le Parc’s view is a situation that [...]

In the introduction to his questionnaire, the visual artist Julio Le Parc notes that art, being a product of social importance, needs group feedback. The first part of the questionnaire focuses on the definition, function, and social relationship of [...]

After attending the Primer Encuentro de Plástica Latinoamericana [First Latin American Visual Arts Encounter], which took place at the Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, Julio Le Parc and Brazilian artist Sérvulo Esmeraldo undertook the task of [...]

Julio Le Parc’s text details the experience that took place in the workshops at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes [Fine Arts Circle], which included the work of an artist in charge of thirty pupils, recorded by a university art history student [...]

Julio Le Parc describes a picture of the economic crisis in Latin America, a by-product of the countries’ external debt and the global power centers’ manifested will via cultural penetration. He proposes the creation of a common front, or entity [...]

This text, written by Julio Le Parc, states that cultural penetration is used in Latin America as a weapon of domination by the United States imperialism, which also seeks to control the means to value artwork at the international level. He also [...]

A drawing by Julio Le Parc depicting Latin American identity produced during the Encuentro de Artes Visuales e Identidad en América Latina and sent for publication in the Propuestas para el humor [Proposals for Humor] journal. Le Parc presented the [...]

This analysis refers to the section titled “Los problemas y posibilidades de nuestras artes cultas” [The Problems and Possibilities of our Cultured Arts] from the “La cultura industrial y las artes” [The Industrial Culture and the Arts] paper [...]

Le Parc’s text points out that the I Encuentro Iberoamericano de Críticos de Arte y Artistas Plásticos [First Latin American Art Critics and Visual Artists Encounter] (Caracas, 1978) was indeed positive because it allowed for the exchange of [...]

The text by Julio Le Parc takes as its starting point the need to overcome individualistic ideas in order to be able to suggest future expansions. Thus, he introduces the idea with a series of questions, which, at first, refer to the general [...]

This text by Julio Le Parc addresses the artist’s problems within the social context, posing a series of questions about the myths that continue to surround and affect a work of art. In general terms, it questions those who maintain the idea of [...]

The text informs the Italian press that in the meeting which took place on October 15 and 16, 1975, it was agreed among the artists representing Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Uruguay to constitute the Fronte [...]

Julio Le Parc presents a brief explanation about a situation in which he was not permitted to include a pamphlet with his works in the Denise René L’intrépide exhibition. Due to this situation, which he considered to be censorship, Le Parc [...]

Text in which Julio Le Parc expresses his disagreement with the Denise René L’intrépide [Denise René: The Intrepid] title, because it refers to an exhibition in which the works were not made by the art-dealer but by the artists, who deserved [...]

Julio Le Parc responds to a request to side against the 1971 São Paulo Biennial. This artist wrote a statement in which the crisis of art is brought up. After enumerating several issues at stake, he concludes that the art’s revolution will be [...]