Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Here, Miguel von Dangel reviews the ideas of Latin American identity and its utopias, stating that its identity was subconsciously affected by cultural conflicts from elsewhere. The writer also points out deficiencies in Latin American criticism, [...]

In this essay from 2004, the Mexico-based Argentinean art theoretician and anthropologist Néstor García Canclini traces the decline of Latin America through [recent times] and examines three styles of Latin Americanism beginning in the mid- [...]

This text discusses the artistic career of Luiz Sacilotto, beginning with his Expressionist works from the first years following World War II through his participation as a concrete artist in the XXVI Venice biennial in 1952. He is considered one of [...]

In this excerpt of his master’s dissertation at the USP (São Paulo), Oswald de Andrade reassesses the history since the Renaissance of how the concept of utopia has been constructed by Europeans as a means to justify a set of values that support [...]

Pedrosa offers a proposal for future art biennials in Latin America, affirming that the continent’s unity is manifest through the misery of its peoples, in the mixture of cultures, and in oppression. In light of the dynamism of contemporary times, [...]