Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This text is the editorial published in the first issue of Espacio, the journal launched by the Lima-based group of the same name in 1947. In it, the collective takes a radical stance in favor of the association of artistic and social avant-gardes. [...]

This article acknowledges that Szyszlo’s provocative statement ("en el Perú no hay pintores" [There are no painters in Peru]) might seem dogmatic because of the way it was twisted by the press and local intellectuals. The writer of the article [...]

In this editorial of Espacio, the group, with the same name, rejects the concept of confrontation between cultures and the idea that one culture or another (pre-Hispanic or Western) should be the dominant one in Peru, preferring instead a synthesis [...]

Contrary to the arguments put forth by opponents of “non-figurative” painting, this article maintains that a country’s degree of cultural evolution is in no way tied to its adherence or lack of adherence to a given artistic tendency. While, the [...]