Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

With a brief introduction on the role of the intaglio technique in printmaking history, which was the dominant form of reproduction of paintings and drawings beginning in the 16th century, author Roy Sieber introduces the Iowa Print Group. This group [...]

In this text, author William Friedman analyzes the impact of Mauricio Lasansky—as artist and professor at the University of Iowa—in printmaking during the years 1946 to 1949. During this period, Lasansky and his students were the recipients of [...]

After receiving a Guggenheim fellowship to travel to the United States in 1943, Buenos Aires-born Mauricio Lasansky spent eight months working at Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in New York City. In this essay, Creighton Gilbert examines how [...]

The author looks at Mauricio Lasansky's artistic development, arguing that his style progressed and matured parallel to that of the Abstract Expressionists, and that, despite following a representational and figurative stylistic trajectory, it shares [...]

In this interview, artist Mauricio Lasansky discusses his graphic work, creative process and experimentation in producing prints, intaglio technique, and use of multiple plates in printing.  He discusses at length his 1976 print Quetzalcoatl, [...]