Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Annateresa Fabris questions the status of the image in contemporary art in the context of the exhibition Gravura Paulista. Fabris begins the text by referring to film, which she considers the vision of those who cannot forge a relationship with the [...]

On the basis of a reading of Carl Jung, Annateresa Fabris argues that there are two distinct types of artists: introverts and extroverts. She places Brazilian Wesley Duke Lee in the second category, which includes artists that lose themselves in [...]

Annateresa Fabris explores the impact of photography on the reproduction and the dissemination of artwork. Her position arises from her reading of W. M. Ivins, Jr. (published in Barcelona, 1975), who considers it an important factor in the emergence [...]

Written jointly by Cacilda Teixeira da Costa and Annateresa Fabris, this overview of the trends in artists’ books discusses two discrete strains: books with a broad approach based on the interaction between art and literature; and low-budget books [...]

This essay suggests a reading of the works of Joaquín Torres García (1875–1949) and the contemporary Brazilian artist Anna Bella Geiger through the lens of their compositional approaches, both of which were related to the field of cartography. [...]

In this essay, Annateresa Fabris addresses the issue of identity and its connections to the visual arts in Latin America. She refers to the concept of a “sense of place” in the development of the symbolic system that posits the idea of a “ [...]