Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The Argentine critic Damián Bayón went to Cuba in July 1979 to interview Cuban architects Fernando Salinas, Roberto Segre, and Daniel Taboada. While he was in Havana, Bayón noticed that a governmental ban on private commerce had led to an absence [...]

In this essay, Hernández Rosselot claims that reality competes with art in Antonio Berni’s work. He writes about the materials Berni uses and reviews the collages in the Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel series. Rosselot goes on to compare Berni [...]

This document underscores the mass communication function of the 3rd Latin American Art Biennial, which opened on October 14, 1966, in Córdoba, Argentina. The article refers to Marshall McLuhan’s theories concerning the media, as expressed in his [...]

Art critic Samuel Paz analyzes the work of Carlos Squirru from the concept of advertising, distant from the way in which it is used for carrying out propaganda. Different from the American artists—who handle advertising embedded in a popular trait [...]

In this article, Guillermo Luzuriaga acknowledges the importance of photography in the field of advertising. He is convinced of the need to radically change the way commercial products are advertised through intelligently presented photographs. He [...]

This is an announcement of the forthcoming opening of the Tucumán Arde [Tucumán is Burning] exhibition at the headquarters of the CGT (Confederación General del Trabajo de los Argentinos [General Confederation of Labor of the Argentine people]), [...]

Luis Felipe Noé writes that the non-figurative work of Juan Del Prete is sustained by his inquiry into the autonomy of medium, form and color, remaining beyond the limitations of concrete and abstract art. In another section of the text, Noé [...]

Mario Alvarado Rubio provides an overall analysis of the political situation in Guatemala, and goes on to say that Diego Rivera is lying about his mural because the proof that Rivera presents as genuine is, in fact, inconclusive. Alvarado Rubio [...]