Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This book is part of the ABC (Arte Brasileira Contemporânea) collection, published by Funarte (Fundação Nacional das Artes). As the title suggests, Artur Barrio is about the artist; it includes a selection of his essays, illustrated with a variety [...]

In this text, Artur Barrio explains that the body is the essential support of his art. In his view, the body in and of itself is the work of art by virtue of the simple fact that art entails “action.” Barrio also discusses with complete frankness [...]

This announcement is a sort of manifesto presented by three artists: Artur Barrio, Dinah Guimaraens, and Lauro Cavalcanti. It is a critique of the creation and presentation of the I Bienal Latino-Americana, whose theme was “Mitos e Magia.” This [...]

Producing a fragmented narrative (apparently using interlocking single sentences), the author and artist Artur Barrio describes his text as an “experience-in-process” (in fact a Joycean work-in-progress). The essay he calls “Situações” [ [...]