Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Juan Acevedo explains the cartoon methodology as a means of popular communication. He summarizes the system he developed in a number of workshops he gave on the topic, workshops that culminated in November 1979 with the Primer Taller [...]

In this introduction, Eduardo Kac shows that the artists known as “Geração Brasil High-Tech” (including Otávio Donasci, Mario Ramiro, and Paulo Bruscky) represent a type of work that refers back to both Waldemar Cordeiro and Abraham Palatnik. [...]

In this text, Mônica Tavares addresses the realms of art, techno-science, and communications from an interdisciplinary perspective. On the basis of research into the mechanisms by which electronic images are created, Tavares examines novel [...]

The artist and Professor Tomás Maldonado detects positive qualities in popular design and mass communications, which he considers useful because they are the only means available that can satisfy the aesthetic needs of the people. In his opinion, an [...]

The director of the Museo de Bellas Artes [Museum of Fine Arts] in Caracas, María Elena Ramos, presented a paper at the I Coloquio de Arte No Objetual [First Symposium on Abstract Art] (Medellín, 1981) under the title, “La comunicación en las [...]

In this 1972 essay, R. Buckminster Fuller presciently describes a new era of communication systems in which all humanity can learn enough about productivity as well as the generalized principles of nature that render abject poverty, and the have-nots [...]

Marta Traba, an Argentine critic living in Puerto Rico, asserts that painting is a means of communication, a language that attempts to say something. As such, its message must be deciphered in order to be understood and read. She maintains that avant [...]

Pierre Restany writes that Lea Lublin’s work Fluvio Subtunal [Sub-Tunnel Flow] (1969) is a systematic work about the structures of psycho-sensorial communication. Restany explains the development of Lublin’s production as a research into visual [...]

[Literary critic and intellectual] Nicolás Rosa presented this text for discussion at the Primer Encuentro Nacional del Arte de Vanguardia [First National Encounter of Avant-garde Art] (Rosario, Argentina, 1968). It appeals to the communications [...]

By means o a poetic prose, art critic Jorge Romero Brest states that he fearfully admires the huge sculptures and lovingly cares about the drawings and small sculptures made by Líbero Badii. He analyzes the relationship between art and life, from [...]

This text for the Lawrence Alloway exhibition relates the language of art to the national identity; it analyzes the diversification of distribution channels and, as such, points out the international dissemination of artistic production. Alloway [a [...]

Libero Badii explains that his transition from sculpting to painting demonstrated that he was an artist in his prime. According to him, painting could express the communicative meaning of his work. He mentions the "sinister" sense of his artistic [...]

This text reflects on the power of words, keeping in mind that each human being includes a little of himself or herself into the words that he or she uses. Avoiding to discuss the usefulness of language, Aldo Pellegrini raises two points: its [...]

This document relates the response of artist Miguel Ocampo to the survey sponsored by Letra y Línea [Letter and Line], in which he states that research and communication are fundamental to painting. Given that Ocampo considers painting the “desire [...]

To present this issue of the Art Section dedicated to Las Torres de Ciudad Satélite [The Towers of the Satellite City] Mathias Goeritz wonders if anybody else—aside from some of his friends—has read the editorials of this section published as [...]

This articlediscusses the vital role that communication plays in the work of those who disseminate the signs and symbols that make communication possible. In this review, Tomás Maldonado refers to the range of complexities at work in the process, as [...]