Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is the photographic documentation for the written texts about three ethnic groups in northern Brazil: the Kampa (in Acre state), the Marubo (Amazonas state), and the Yanomami (Amazonas and Roraima states). The author is the Franco-Italian [...]

This study in aesthetic anthropology by Regina Polo Müller revolves around the following topics: 1. Supports and techniques in drawing: artistic style; 2. Techniques and style in drawing; 3. “Tayngava”: pattern, image, replica of the human form [...]

This publication by anthropologist Maria Heloisa Fénelon Costa encompasses the following sections: Introduction; I. Drawing; II. The World’s Beings; III. Supernatural; IV. Animals- Iconography. The Mehináku Classification of the World and [...]

This is a research project published by Claudia Andújar as well as a large-format art book with a trilingual text (Portuguese, Italian, and English). The book is illustrated with drawings made with felt tip pens by Koromani Waika, Mamokè Rorowè, [...]

This volume contains three essays on the feather art of the Mekrãgnoti tribe, a subgroup of the Kayapó people. The first, “La notion de personne. La peinture corporelle chez les Kayapó” [Body Painting Among the Kayapó: The Concept of Person [...]

This is a book by Erich Freundt on featherware, face painting, memorial services, hunting scenes, ceramics, and carved wooden dolls of three ethnic groups from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, which he had visited between 1939 and 1942. The [...]

The exhibition Artes indígenas was held in São Paulo in 2000 as one of the events commemorating 500 years since the discovery of Brazil by Europeans. The catalogue includes the text by Lúcia Hussak van Velthen, one of the exhibition curators, [...]

Anthropologist Berta G. Ribeiro, along with museologist Adalgiza Bonfim d´Eça, a specialist in indexation systems, compiled this enormous dictionary of indigenous crafts in Brazil. The publication contains the following chapters: 1. Ceramics; 2. [...]

In this critical bibliography, German ethnologist Herbert Baldüs compiles 1,785 entries on works related to indigenous themes in Brazil, works that were published from the mid-16th century to the early fifties of the 20th century. Baldüs [...]

This book by draftsman and watercolorist Noêmia Mourão is one of the very few expressions of interest on the part of Brazilian artists in indigenous crafts, in this case feather work. The book contains reproductions of sixty-nine full-color [...]

This book jointly written by the anthropologists Darcy Ribeiro and his wife Berta G. Ribeiro is about the extremely elaborate feather work produced by the Urubú-Kaapor indigenous people, who are members of the Tupi language branch, and live in [...]

This text by Gastão Cruls is outlined as follows: The Visual Arts, Basic Elements and Development; Instruments and Material; Body Adornments; Featherwork; Auxiliary Decoration Elements; Braids and Weaves; Works with Strings of Beads; Artifacts Made [...]

This essay by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro was published in the História geral da arte no Brasil. The essay includes the following subjects: 1. Introductions: The Indians. Art genres (art on stone, weavings, fabrics, ceramics, and music). [...]

This essay presents an anthology of drawings by indigenous people collected as part of the aesthetic anthropological studies conducted by Lux Vidal. The anthropologist Dominique Tilkin Gallois, in this essay about the Waiãpi Indians (the [...]

This is a chapter from Kadiwéu, the book about the homonymous indigenous group. The chapter, called “Arte: a vontade da beleza” [Art: The Will of Beauty], includes ethnological studies about knowledge, bad luck, and beauty. Here, [...]

This is the second edition of the book by Theodor Koch-Grünberg, Anfänge der Kunst im Urwald: Indianer-Handzeichnungen auf seinen Reisen in Brasilien gesammelt [Principles of Art in the Virgin Jungle: A Collection of Indigenous Drawings Assembled [...]

This book is about the collections of featherwork at the MAA-USP (Museu de Arte e Arqueologia, da Universidade de São Paulo). The introduction is by the anthropologist Paula Monter; Fernando Mendonça d´Horta provides the [...]

This text by anthropologist Lux Vidal discusses the body painting and graphic art of the Xikrin Indians, a subgroup of the Kayapó ethnicity clustered in the southeastern region of the state of Pará. The text includes forty-five paintings on paper, [...]