Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The twenty-one-page program presents Fernando Gamboa’s initial ideas on how to represent Mexico at the 1958 Belgium world exhibition, the same that centered on the theme of a “second Industrial Revolution”: one of nuclear energy. The curator [...]

[This article] reports on the winning sections for the different awards at the 1958 Brussels exhibition. The categories were: “Grand Prizes,” “Stars” (gold, silver and bronze medals), and “Certificates of Honor.” Mexico won a total of [...]

In this article the author reflects upon the humanistic character he attributes to Mexican culture: “Mexico has shown itself to be a country that is especially receptive to assimilating this kind of culture and making its own contributions to it [...]