Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay is on an interview [conducted] by Gabriel Peluffo with the sculptor Germán Cabrera, the artist and performer Teresa Vila, and the painter and engraver Anhelo Hernández. He questions them on the role of the visual arts within the social [...]

After a number of years of inactivity, the Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes (CNBA) was restructured in 1967. While the commission was largely supportive of the Uruguayan government, it included a wide range of representatives of the artistic and [...]

This essay praises the uniform quality of the work presented during the eighth Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes of 1944 in Uruguay. It also analyzes the grand prize awarded in that annual exhibition to Joaquín Torres García for painting, as well as [...]