Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is a report on the founding of the new AAP (Asociación de Artistas Plásticos) del Uruguay, the association of artists who were involved in and supported the government’s Primer Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes (1937). The disagreement over [...]

In this document, the Club de Grabado de Montevideo (CGM, founded in 1953) announces that it has purchased a property to be used as its headquarters. The text provides an overview of the club’s achievements and outlines its aims, among them [...]

This is a report on how artists at the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) dealt with new techniques designed for the reproduction of images. The report reviews new printing systems, such as offset, and mentions the increasing popularity of silk [...]

This is a review of the financial situation at the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo, founded in 1953) in early 1983, at a time when, after ten years of civilian-military dictatorship, Uruguay appeared to be easing its way toward a democratic future [...]

This was the official introduction to the Fourteenth São Paulo International Biennial, an exhibition that paid tribute with great fanfare to the founder, Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho. As of the formation of a Conselho de Arte e Cultura (CAC), the [...]

In this interview, the sculptor José Resende describes his training as an architect and his career as an artist since the mid-1970s. He discusses the development of the Grupo Rex and the founding of the Escola Brasil, in both of which he was [...]

The Puerto Rican writer and educator Nilita Vientós Gastón reviews the exhibition presented at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño by the Asociación Pro Escuela de Artes Plásticas [School of Visual Arts Association] on April 22, 1956. She writes that [...]

This document includes a summary of the proposals presented by the participants at the Primer Encuentro Iberoamericano de Críticos de Arte y Artistas Plásticos who were sitting together at work table number three. Referring to the subject “The [...]

This article explains that the Federación Argentina de Entidades de Artistas Plásticos [Argentine Federation of Visual Arts Groups] became active again, after a long break. One of the projects on the group’s agenda is to review modifications to [...]