Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, art historian Gabriel Peluffo interviews artist Antonio Frasconi, who was a resident of the United States since the forties, during the artist’s visit to Montevideo. Frasconi studied printmaking in Uruguay as a member of the Club de [...]

The writer Mario Benedetti, representing the Montevideo weekly Marcha, reviews the seventh edition of the Exposición de La Habana (1968), an event that was organized by the Casa de las Américas, a Cuban institution founded in 1959. The Uruguayan [...]

This document contains information on an exhibition of the Federación de Estudiantes Plásticos del Uruguay (FEPU) held in 1942. A pro-Soviet text is transcribed and a list of participants in the show appears, among them eminent local artists. The [...]

The Colombian artist Pedro Alcántara writes to Lorenzo Homar asking him to participate in the production of the portfolio “Grandes Maestros de la Plástica Latinoamericana” [Great Masters of Latin American Visual Art]. Ten artists are to be [...]

German-American illustrator Fritz Eichenberg comments on the graphic work of Uruguayan artist Antonio Frasconi, a figure who, in Eichenberg’s view, continues to come up with avant-garde formulations after twenty-five years of intensive work. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Artist and essayist Félix Bonilla Norat comments on the visit of the Uruguayan printmaker, Antonio Frasconi, who would be exhibiting his works at the La Casa del Libro [House of the Book] and at the Museo del Grabado [Museum of Graphic Art]. The [...]

Argentine critic Rafael Squirru writes a critical review of an exhibition of posters held at the Taller de Gráfica [Graphic Art Workshop] of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP) [Institute of Puerto Rican Culture]. This workshop was led by [...]