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Los hachepientos del '68
1996This article is about the group, led by Clemente Padín, which created the magazine Los Huevos del Plata, a departure from the literary style that was favored in Uruguayan cultural circles in the 1960s. The Uruguayan author’s goal was to present [...]ICAA Record ID: 1240628 -
Arte, vanguardia y nuevas figuras
1996The artist Gabriel Morera; the writers José Balza, Jesús Enrique Guédez and Salvador Garmendia; the playwrights Román Chalbaud and Isaac Chocrón; and the graphic designer Nedo all make different statements about the relationship between the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1169254 -
[Cal significa - si usted quiere - las iniciales de Crítica, Arte, Literatura...]
1962This text by Guillermo Meneses is a presentation of CAL magazine, which he founded. Published in the magazine’s first issue, Meneses’s text explains the meaning of the letters in the publication’s name: C refers to crítica (criticism), A to [...]ICAA Record ID: 1168349 -
40 dibujos de Luis Guevara Moreno : reflejan el hombre y el paisaje en la obra de Rómulo Gallegos
1988This article examines how Rómulo Gallegos’ writing influenced Luis Guevara Moreno’s painting. The author quotes the painter’s description of producing paintings that illustrate “the setting in a Gallegos story.” Guevara Moreno explains how [...]ICAA Record ID: 1154459 -
Peruanicemos al Perú : el indigenismo en la literatura nacional III
1927This essay by José Carlos Mariátegui formed part of the “Peruanicemos al Perú” section of Mundial magazine. In this third and final text in the series on Indianist literature, the author asserts that Indianism is not the same thing as [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136888 -
Peruanicemos al Perú : el indigenismo en la literatura nacional II
1927This essay by José Carlos Mariátegui formed part of the “Peruanicemos al Perú” section of Mundial magazine. In this second text in the series on Indianist literature, the author analyzes the phenomenon of literary criollismo, explaining that [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136871 -
Peruanicemos al Perú : el indigenismo en la literatura
1927This essay by José Carlos Mariátegui formed part of the “Peruanicemos al Perú” section of Mundial magazine. In this first text in the series on Indianist literature, Mariátegui argues the extensive repercussion of Indianist literature on new [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136855 -
Peruanicemos al Perú : nacionalismo y vanguardismo en la literatura y el arte
1925This essay by writer and thinker José Carlos Mariátegui formed part of the “Peruanicemos al Perú” section of Mundial magazine. On the basis of developments in literature and art, Mariátegui underscores the nationalist bent of the avant-garde [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136807 -
El arte moderno de Julia Codesido
1938This review considers Julia Codesido’s work within the context of art and literature produced by women, noting that this genre “is uniquely attuned to feeling and expression.” Though historically recognized solely in terms of family or social [...]ICAA Record ID: 1136567 -
El clan de Barranquilla
1981In this article, prestigious film critic and journalist Julio Roca Baena briefly recalls the Grupo de Barranquilla active in the mid-fifties and its importance to Colombian art, literature, and journalism. At the opening of the text, Roca Baena [...]ICAA Record ID: 1132741 -
De Alberto Hidalgo a José Carlos Mariategui : Buenos Aires, 21 de diciembre de 1928
1984In this letter to Peruvian writer and journalist José Carlos Mariátegui, avant-garde Peruvian writer and poet Alberto Hidalgo thanks Mariátegui for sending him a copy of his recently published book, Seven Interpretative Essays on Peruvian Reality [...]ICAA Record ID: 1126257 -
El momento
1927In "El momento," Juan Marinello announces the existence of a new avant-garde movement in Cuban literature and the arts. Marinello prophesizes a coming “battle” between the new Cuban intellectual scene and the outmoded literary establishment who, [...]ICAA Record ID: 1125671 -
El ateneo en 1894
1933This article records a polemical debate over Argentinean national artistic and literary practices that took place in 1894 between three Argentinean artistic figures: poet and playwright Rafael Obligado; painter, critic, and scholar Eduardo Schiaffino [...]ICAA Record ID: 1125286 -
Discurso de incorporación a una sociedad literaria de Santiago pronunciado en la sesión del 3 de mayo de 1842
1944This address was given by the Spanish-born, Chilean-based scholar José Victorino Lastarria in 1842 during a meeting of the recently formed Sociedad Literaria, a literary society of important Chilean scholars and politicians. In his speech to the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1125103 -
Manifesto Flami-n’-assu
1927This manifesto is a call for (cultural) independence and was written from “a high Amazonian plateau,” in the state of Pará (where the author hailed from). The proclamation uses typical expressions and references the myths, customs, and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111436 -
O movimento da Revista Sul e a literatura catarinense
1956In this report, the writer and journalist Salim Miguel describes (almost ten years after the fact) the movement formed by young artists and intellectuals in the state of Santa Catarina who started the magazine Sul in the late 1940s. The publication [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111405 -
De como deve ser visto o binômio Clã-SCAP
1988In 1988 the art critic Mário Baratta described the origins and performance of the group of artists and writers who produced Clã [Clan] magazine and founded the SCAP (Sociedade Cearense de Artes Plásticas) in the mid-1940s in the state of Ceará. [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111385 -
Wlademir Dias-Pino: "A guerra da caatinga é uma guerra sem paisagem"
1975In this essay, José Neumanne Pinto interviewed the poet Wlademir Dias-Pino about his research on Northeastern Brazil. He presents a selection of phrases written by the poet, indicating that he does not claim to advance any kind of theory, even [...]ICAA Record ID: 1111030 -
Explicação dêste numero
1946This text is issue zero of Clã - Revista Trimestral magazine, in which the members introduce the publication. In their opinion Clã is not only a literary magazine; it also constitutes what they consider “a mental representation of Ceará,” [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110789 -
Engenho e arte : a fala dos gravadores
1998“Engenho e Arte. A Fala dos Gravadores” [Ingenuity and Art: The Speech of the Engravers] is one of seven chapters of a book by Gilmar de Carvalho entitled Madeira Matriz, a subject he developed in a doctoral thesis done at Pontifícia [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110758 -
A nova gravura de Juazeiro do Norte
1999This essay, which appeared in the catalogue produced with research support from Gilmar de Carvalho, introduced A Nova Gravura de Juazeiro do Norte, the exhibition curated by Dodora Guimarães at the Centro Cultural da Abolição in Recife (November [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110756 -
Cordel : a novelistíca nordestina
1983This essay, “Cordel - A Novelística Nordestina” by Geová Sobreira, suggests that literatura de cordel—the genre of published writing known as “string literature”—is an expression of an intrinsically novelistic tradition. It is a [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110755 -
O negro na literatura e na arte
1956This is the initial text of the book O negro na literatura e na arte. It was originally the text of a lecture given at the Teatro José de Alencar to commemorate the day when slavery was abolished in Brazil (1888). The event was organized by the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110753 -
Samico : gravador brasileiro = Samico : Brazilian engraver
1962The art critic Ferreira Gullar discusses the work of the printmaker Gilvan Samico, highlighting the uniqueness of his prints. Samico’s figurative work reveals both a regional and an international vocabulary, and confirms the traditional nature of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110505 -
Semana nacional de poesia de vanguarda: comunicado e conclusões
1963There are four subsections in the manifesto written by the Brazilian art critic Roberto Pontual: a) Awareness of the Form (that defines Brazilian poetry as a participating avant-garde whose function is to be creatively critical; b) Communication and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110501 -
Semana nacional de poesia de vanguarda
1963This text on the Semana Nacional de Poesia de Vanguarda exhibition is anonymous, although it refers to the UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). It highlights the importance of the genre within the evolution of art, stating its goal of [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110486 -
Urucungo : poemas negros
1932Raul Bopp wrote this book of poems on slavery in Brazil. It recounts the memories of black slaves and the living conditions of their descendants. The selected poems center on their desire for a life of freedom in Africa, the violence and humiliations [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110481 -
Essa negra Fulô : Poema
1928The subject of this modernist poem is the relationship between “Fulô,” a young slave girl, and her masters: the lady (“Sinhá”) and the gentleman (“Sinhô”) of the house. Fulô is urged to [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110479 -
Estética e ideologia: o modernismo em 1930
1973This critical essay by João Luiz Lafetá examines Brazilian modernism by distinguishing the “aesthetic project” from the “ideological project” of the literary production during the 1920s and 1930s. The author creates a dialectical division [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110363 -
Vanguarda e subdesenvolvimento
1969In this essay the controversial Brazilian art theoretician Ferreira Gullar challenges the universality of the notion of an aesthetic avant-garde, as well as its relevance in underdeveloped countries. Particularly in Brazil, where the pursuit of avant [...]ICAA Record ID: 1110361 -
[Depois de muita hesitação...]
1945In this essay the critic Mário Schenberg discusses the political and cultural changes he sees in the wake of the uprising led by Getúlio Vargas that was known as the Revolução de 1930. Schenberg believes that the agricultural oligarchy’s loss [...]ICAA Record ID: 1091507 -
Formação do espírito moderno
1944Abguar Bastos offers his interpretation of Brazilian modernism as a “yearning for the liberation of national thought.” The writer understands modern art as a “process” that takes on various forms throughout its course. In Brazil, for example [...]ICAA Record ID: 1091410 -
Noticia da actual literatura brazileira: instinto de nacionalidade
1873This is an article by the famous novelist Machado de Assis, in which he discusses nationalist opinions that value “the local colors” that were praised by literary critics and writers of the so-called Brazilian Romanticism during the second half [...]ICAA Record ID: 1090436 -
Plano-pilôto para poesia concreta
1958This article by the Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos, which sounds like a manifesto, lists the conceptual guidelines and the historical and theoretical references of concrete poetry. It underscores that the movement represents “the end of a [...]ICAA Record ID: 1090135 -
RAYAS update
1978This document, composed in 1978 by writer José Armas, is a report on the state of the organization, Revolución Artística y Acción Social (RAYAS), and is also an appeal for action on outstanding issues. RAYAS, a group founded by Armas and other [...]ICAA Record ID: 1082329 -
A Union of Chicanos Writers
1976This brief document by writer José Armas summarizes the ideas of a group of Chicano writers and artists from the states of Washington, California, Texas, and New Mexico who met in Lubbock, Texas, with the intention of forming an artistic and [...]ICAA Record ID: 1082215 -
La hora actual y nosotros
1929This text is Colombian critic Rafael Azula Barrera’s response to Darío Samper’s article on the difference between generations. While Azula Barrera recognizes to a certain extent the legitimacy of Samper’s criticism of earlier generations, he [...]ICAA Record ID: 1080218 -
La afirmación de los que surgen
1929Journalist Darío Samper criticizes what he calls the “philistinism” and “Manichaeism” of 19th-century Colombian intellectuals overly influenced by foreign models, particularly by French thought whose hold on the country he deems excessive. [...]ICAA Record ID: 1079157 -
El artista debe superar las limitaciones de las ideologías : Jacobo Borges en Nueva York
1983In this interview with Armando J. Florez, Jacobo Borges states that an artist should have a global perspective when it comes to politics and mankind’s real values, and should be free of any limitations imposed by ideologies. The painter believes [...]ICAA Record ID: 1065435 -
Introduction: "La Plebe"
1972In this document, Luis Valdez argues that as inheritors of a colonized consciousness, it is difficult for Chicano writers to articulate a cohesive cultural identity. He suggests that this difficulty can perhaps be negotiated through an embrace of the [...]ICAA Record ID: 1061252 -
III. El hombre cordial, producto americano
1932In this document, Brazilian poet, journalist, and short-story writer, Ribeiro Couto, states that “true Americanism” rejects the idea of Indianism, yet calls on these same indigenous races to make contributions to “Iberian” man. This fusion [...]ICAA Record ID: 1054477 -
I. La inconexión de América ; II. Espacio y tiempo en el alma americana
1932Brazilian poet and journalist Prudente de Moraes Neto remarks on the chance discovery of Alfonso Reyes in European magazines, remarking on how difficult it is to obtain books by Latin American authors in Brazil and the ease by which you can obtain [...]ICAA Record ID: 1054457 -
Bracho sacrifica lo más caro a todo artista : la libertad
1951Poet Guillermo Alfredo Cook asserts that, insofar as Gabriel Bracho’s work has rendered painting literary, it has mistaken the essence of art, reducing it to political slogans and ideological propaganda. He describes Bracho’s painting as a [...]ICAA Record ID: 850751 -
The dilemma of the modern Chicana artist and critic
1979Poet and literary critic Marcella Trujillo examines the symbols that some Chicana poets have used in their published poetry to reflect their own position with regard to that of their Chicano male peers—and also the dominant male society at large. [...]ICAA Record ID: 845618 -
Decadentismo y americanismo
2002In this essay Pedro Emilio Coll replies to Latin American critics who, “in the name of tradition and good sense” deplore what they describe as decadent representatives of the new movements that took root in the Americas in the early twentieth [...]ICAA Record ID: 815772 -
Genealogia del entre-lugar modernista
2006This essay by Professor Raúl Antelo addresses the issue of place in a theory concerning the marginalizing of Latin American culture, more specifically within South America. This culture has always been viewed through a prism of exclusion and [...]ICAA Record ID: 808262 -
O entre-lugar do discurso latino-americano
1978Through comparative analysis, Silviano Santiago examines the “place” of literary discourse in Latin America. He describes a process of “acculturation” that began in the colonial era and has left the trace of “defamiliarization.” [...]ICAA Record ID: 807968 -
Marta Traba en el limbo
1965Ludovico Silva, who had a philosophy background, refutes the thesis of Marta Traba of a “false apocalypse” when she rationalizes that Latin American artists were simulating hardships alien to their reality. According to Silva, the idea of [...]ICAA Record ID: 799323 -
Quelques visages de Paris
1925This is a book of poetry by the painter and draftsman Vicente do Rego Monteiro, a Brazilian who lived in France for years and produced work in a variety of fields. The theme of the book Quelques visages de Paris [Some Parisian Faces] takes the [...]ICAA Record ID: 785105 -
Pintura Pau-Brasil e antropofagia
1939In this text, painter Tarsila do Amaral provides an overview of her artistic career, specifically in relation to the Pau-Brasil movement and to cultural “anthropophagy.” She emphasizes the importance of the trip she took to Minas Gerais in 1924 [...]ICAA Record ID: 784978
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