Name Descriptor: Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe×
  • [Con motivo de la Tercera Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano...]
    Fernández Méndez, Eugenio; Cárdenas Ruiz, Manuel
    1974
    This timeline tracks the life of Puerto Rican artist Rafael Tufiño, who lived in New York and in Mexico City. Puerto Rican intellectuals Manuel Cárdenas Ruiz and Eugenio Fernández Méndez review the graphic work produced by Tufiño between the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 857777

  • [Informe de actividad, 30 de enero de 1972]
    Torres, Enrique
    1972
    [This document is] a confidential report, written by detective Enrique Torres for the Puerto Rican Intelligence Office, about an event at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [Puerto Rican Cultural Institute] (ICP) on January 29, 1972. The [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 863999

  • [Letter] 1969 December 18, México D.F. [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Beltrán, Alberto
    1969
    The Mexican printmaker, Alberto Beltrán, thanks Lorenzo Homar for the invitation to the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art]. However, given the late date on which the news reached him, he [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 846964

  • [Letter] 1970 January 28, México, D.F. [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Beltrán, Alberto
    1970
    Mexican artist Alberto Beltrán thanks Lorenzo Homar for his time and attention during his visit to Puerto Rico. He tells Homar that artists Ángel Bracho and Jesús Álvarez Amaya, from the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP), have sent works to Puerto [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 861884

  • [Letter] 1971 December 15, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Conde, Carlos
    1971
    Carlos Conde III, who at the time in question was president of the board of directors of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [ICP, Puerto Rican Cultural Institute], answers several questions asked by the Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar about [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 825694

  • [Letter] 1972 Abril 16, Nueva York [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Camnitzer, Luis
    1972
    In this letter to Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar, Uruguayan artist and academic Luis Camnitzer proposes that, on the occasion of the III Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [3rd San Juan Biennial of Latin American Prints], scheduled [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856479

  • [Letter] 1972 Abril 25, Miramar, Puerto Rico [to] Luis Camnitzer
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1972
    In this letter artist Lorenzo Homar replies to his colleague, Uruguayan professor Luis Camnitzer, who had suggested that some of the artists who planned to participate in the III Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [3rd San Juan Biennial [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856495

  • [Letter] 1972 Febrero 25, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] periódico Claridad
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1972
    In this letter sent to the Puerto Rican Socialist Party’s newspaper Claridad, printmaker Lorenzo Homar replies to an article by Puerto Rican writer Edwin Reyes. Homar attacks the position taken by Reyes—and by “Santitos,” a character who [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856447

  • [Letter] 1972 Febrero 27, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] el director de Claridad
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1972
    In this brief, cynical note, artist Lorenzo Homar informs the editor of the radical newspaper Claridad that he plans to suggest that the “Methadone Prize” at the III Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [3rd San Juan Biennial of Latin [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856463

  • [Letter] 1972 Mayo 15, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Antonio Frasconi
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1972
    In this letter to Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi, Lorenzo Homar comments on a number of topics: his resignation from the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP); issues related to the Portafolio Casals and Luigi Marrozzini; and the request he [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 861590

  • [Letter] 1973 December 17, s.l. [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Alegría, Ricardo E.
    1973
    In 1974, Ricardo Alegría was director of the Office of Cultural Affairs, as well as a member of the committee for the III Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [Third San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art]. [In this letter,] Alegr [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 861290

  • [Letter] 1973 Diciembre 10, San Juan de Puerto Rico [to] Ricardo Alegría, Director del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1973
    Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar informs Ricardo Alegría, director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), of his reasons for not being interested in participating in the selection committee for the Bienal de San Juan de Grabado [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 823984

  • [Letter] 1973 Diciembre 24, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Ricardo Alegría
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1973
    The artist Lorenzo Homar writes to Ricardo Alegría, director of the Office of Cultural Affairs at the time, about the selection jury for the III Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano (1974) [Third San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 861271

  • [Letter] 1974 Enero 20, Miramar, Puerto Rico [to] the editor The San Juan Star
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1974
    In response to an article that appeared in the art section of The San Juan Star newspaper, Lorenzo Homar explains that there will not be a “counter Biennial” at the Tercera Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [Third San Juan Biennial [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 863670

  • [Letter] 1976 Agosto 1, Miramar, Puerto Rico [to] Féliz Rodríguez Báez, director de la Escuela de Artes Plásticas.
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1976
    Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar writes to Félix Rodriguez Báez, who at the time was the director of the Escuela de Artes Plásticas [School of Visual Arts] of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [ICP, Puerto Rican Cultural Institute], to [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856303

  • [Letter] 1976 Agosto 17, Miramar, Puerto Rico [to] Ricardo Alegría.
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1976
    In this letter to Ricardo Alegría, the director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) at the time, Lorenzo Homar discusses an array of topics, including the IV Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [Fourth Latin American Print [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 825473

  • [Letter] 1976 April 20, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Luis Manuel Rodríguez Morales, Director Ejecutivo del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
    Alcántara, Pedro, 1942-; Jaramillo, María de la Paz, 1948-; Zalamea, Gustavo, 1951-; Rendón, Augusto, 1933-; León, Phanor
    1976
    In this letter to Luis Manuel Rodríguez Morales, executive director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), Colombian artists María de la Paz Jaramillo, Pedro Alcántara, Phanor León, Gustavo Zalamea, and Augusto Rendón condition their [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 825533

  • [Letter] 1976 July 15, México D.F. [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Beltrán, Alberto
    1976
    Alberto Beltrán, a Mexican artist, writes to his friend, Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar, to thank him for his earlier letter explaining the problems surrounding the IV Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [4th San Juan Biennial of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856399

  • [Letter] 1976 May 10, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Director de El Nuevo Día
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1976
    Lorenzo Homar states that Puerto Rican artists were never informed that the IV Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [IV Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan] would be financed with funds from the American Revolution Bicentennial [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 861769

  • [Letter] 1989 Febrero 14, The University of Iowa [to] Lorenzo Homar
    Lasansky, Mauricio, 1914-
    1989
    In this letter to Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar, Argentine artist Mauricio Lasansky states that he resents the fact that the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [Latin American and Caribbean Print Biennial, San Juan] is [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 864217

  • [Letter] 1996 Mayo 15, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Lorenzo Homar y contestaciones de Lorenzo Homar
    Díaz Hernández, Luis Edgardo; Homar, Lorenzo
    1996
    Luis E. Díaz Hernández, executive director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [Puerto Rican Cultural Institute] (ICP), sent a letter to the artist Lorenzo Homar with a questionnaire consisting of five questions. The objective of the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 856255

  • [Originales a Rodríguez Morales ICP...]
    Alcántara, Pedro, 1942-
    1976
    Colombian artist Pedro Alcántara informs his Puerto Rican colleague Lorenzo Homar that the individuals who signed the letter sent to Luis Manuel Rodríguez Morales, director of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP), represent a majority of [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 825518

  • Antonio Martorell : crónica y poesía
    Rivera Rosario, Nelson
    1986
    In this essay, Puerto Rican artist Nelson Rivera Rosario provides a critical analysis of Antonio Martorell’s graphic work, discussing specifically its image, technique, and historical context. Regarding the political content of Martorell’s work, [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 866494

  • Antonio Martorell : el cómplice reincidente
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1986
    Puerto Rican artist and art critic José Antonio Torres Martinó discusses the various media—event, installation, theater, print, poster, film—used by Antonio Martorell in his attempt to provoke and establish a dialogue with the viewer. Novel and [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 866513

  • Apuntes sobre la Segunda Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano
    Ruiz de la Mata, Ernesto
    Puerto Rican critic Ernesto Ruiz de la Mata comments that after the II Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [2nd San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art] was inaugurated, many people forgot about the marginal activities that made [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 806339

  • At 21, has the Graphics Biennial really come of age?
    Ruiz de la Mata, Ernesto
    1991
    In 1991, the IX Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [9th San Juan Biennial of Latin and Caribbean American Graphic Art] was held in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican critic Ernesto Ruiz de la Mata took advantage of the occasion to [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 852762

  • Bienal de San Juan
    Tolentino, Marianne de
    1979
    The French critic and historian based in the Dominican Republic, Marianne de Tolentino, wrote a critical review of the IV Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [4th San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Arts] (1979) organized by the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 805900

  • CODA para la VII Bienal de San Juan
    Tibol, Raquel
    1987
    The Mexican writer and art critic Raquel Tibol questions the validity of international biennials. However, she believes they are important for stimulating changes and innovations. She talks about the change from the rule that provided for each judge [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 806157

  • Conversation with Luigi
    Ruiz de la Mata, Ernesto
    1972
    In this interview conducted byPuerto Rican critic Ernesto Ruiz de la Mata, Italian art dealer Luigi Marrozzini recounts his experiences as the director of Galería Colibrí. Marrozzini offers a detailed account of the opening exhibition of the [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1062485

  • Creación y provocación en la colectiva de M.S.A
    Pérez-Lizano, Manuel
    1988
    Spanish critic Manuel Pérez-Lizano reviews the group exhibition, Arte y Política [Art and Politics], which was organized in 1988 by the Galería M.S.A. (Manifiesto Sintetista Actualizado) [Manifesto of Synthetism Today] during the VIII Bienal de [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1061096

  • Cuatro voces en la gráfica de Myrna Báez
    Fernández Zavala, Margarita
    Puerto Rican art historian Margarita Fernández Zavala divides Myrna Báez’s graphic work into four parallel stylistic discourses: costumbrismo (representation of local everyday life), formalism, expressionism, and lyricism. Fernández Zavala dates [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 866716

  • De la bienal de San Juan ¿cuáles obras escogería?
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1993
    Puerto Rican artist José A. Torres Martinó had a low opinion of the exhibition at the X Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [10th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art], held in 1993. Nevertheless, he [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 853494

  • El arte comprometido de Myrna Báez
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1988
    Puerto Rican artist and critic José Antonio Torres Martinó states that Myrna Báez has been a militant supporter of Puerto Rican independence throughout her lifetime. Her work, however, is by no means political propaganda. Like many artists before [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 866741

  • El éxito de los derrotados
    Traba, Marta
    1970
    The Argentine critic Marta Traba, who was based in Puerto Rico at the time of this article, evaluates the works presented on the occasion of the Primera Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [1st San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 806451

  • El Jurado
    Homar, Lorenzo
    1970
    Lorenzo Homar presents an ink caricature of the jury at the Primera Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [First Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan] held in 1970, whose members were: Arturo Dávila, director of the department of fine [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 863443

  • El portafolios gráfico o la hoja liberada
    Tió, Teresa
    1995
    This essay by Puerto Rican historian Teresa Tío discusses the historical development of graphic portfolios in Puerto Rico between the 1950s and the 1990s. The essayist’s thesis is based on the fact that Puerto Rico has a long tradition of creating [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 806479

  • En agenda la XI Bienal
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1994
    Puerto Rican artist José A. Torres Martinó comments on the news that the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña [ICP, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture], in spite of its lack of funding, plans to hold the XI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 853543

  • En déficit la Bienal
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1990
    Puerto Rican artist José A. Torres Martinó reports that the VIII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [8th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art], held in 1988, ended with a considerable financial [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 853660

  • Entrevista al señor Marcos Irizarry: 1986-1987
    Biaggi, Jacqueline
    1986
    This document is an interview of the Puerto Rican artist, Marcos Irizarry, by Jacqueline Biaggi in which the artist provides important facts about his life, his studies and his exhibitions. Irizarry was a printmaker who participated in various [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1055226

  • Jurados : insatisfacción garantizada
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1988
    Puerto Rican artist José A. Torres Martinó tells a story about the VIII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [8th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art], held in 1988. At the inauguration, a young man [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 852789

  • Jurados y premios : inherentes al arte
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1991
    José A. Torres Martinó, a Puerto Rican artist, considers both the Primera [1st] (1970) and the Segunda [2nd] (1972) Bienal de San Juan de Grabado Latinoamericano [San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art] to be the most significant biennials [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 853698

  • La antropología del grabado latinoamericano
    Duncan, Ronald J., 1941-
    1979
    Anthropologist Ronald J. Duncan analyzes work by 125 of the 315 artists that participated in the IV Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [IV Latin American Print Biennial, San Juan] in an attempt to determine basic demographic patterns. In [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 805423

  • La Bienal amerita una revisión
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1992
    Puerto Rican artist José A. Torres Martinó notes that many collectors prefer to purchase paintings rather than prints, since paintings—as unique works that are less perishable—provide greater satisfaction. He believes that the Bienal de San [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 853801

  • La Bienal de Artes Gráficas de Puerto Rico
    Goldman, Shifra M., 1926-
    1987
    U.S. critic Shifra M. Goldman comments on the importance of the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art] for Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. At the VII [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 852808

  • La más alta competencia y calidad artística
    García Gutiérrez, Enrique
    1988
    Puerto Rican critic Enrique García Gutiérrez comments on the VIII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [8th San Juan Biennial of Latin American and Caribbean Graphic Art], held in 1988. In spite of all the errors committed in [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 852827

  • La obra gráfica de Luis Hernández Cruz
    Tolentino, Marianne de
    1991
    The French critic and historian Marianne de Tolentino, who lives in the Dominican Republic, writes about the Puerto Rican abstract painter and printmaker, Luis Hernández Cruz. During his early years, according to de Tolentino, he worked mainly with [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 1055179

  • La Quinta Bienal
    Cherson, Samuel B.
    1981
    Samuel Cherson, an exiled Cuban critic living in Puerto Rico, considers the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art] to be one of the greatest cultural events in Puerto Rico. It implies an [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 842951

  • La Sala de Gráfica Puertorriqueña y su contenido
    Fernandez, Margarita
    1981
    Puerto Rican historian Margarita Fernández Zavala gives a short history of the beginnings of the Hermandad de Artistas Gráficos de Puerto Rico [Puerto Rican Brotherhood of Graphic Artists] in 1981. She writes this article in response to the refusal [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 806283

  • La Sala de Gráfica Puertorriqueña, su significado
    Torres Martinó, José Antonio, 1916-2011
    1983
    The Puerto Rican artist and critic José A. Torres Martinó explains his stance regarding the exhibition organized in San Juan as a “contrabienal” [counter-biennial] to the Sexta Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe [6th [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 805033

  • La Segunda Bienal
    Squirru, Rafael, 1925-
    1972
    Argentine poet and critic Rafael Squirru gives an overview of the events at the II Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano [2nd San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphic Art] (1972), the prizes awarded by the jury, the participating artists [...]
    ICAA Record ID: 806395