Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In 1947, the Colombian Jesuit Eduardo Ospina wrote a text entitled “Orientaciones: el desnudo en el arte y en la vida” for the Revista Javeriana of Bogotá. In this article, Ospina investigates the origins of the nude, going back to its [...]

In this article, conservative journalist José Mejía y Mejía provides a lucid and surprising defense of Colombian painter Débora Arango, whose exhibition had opened at the Teatro Colón in Bogotá on October 5, 1940. In José Mejía y Mejía’s [...]

This document is an interview conducted by Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Puerto Rican curator who is based in the United States, with Domingo García, the artist. In the interview, García explains why, after mounting an exhibition of portraits entitled [...]

The anonymous author of this article advises photographers on how to photograph nudes and obtain a truly worthy result. The writer emphasizes that this is one of the genres in which it is hardest to achieve perfection; therefore, he suggests that the [...]