Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This 1982 article draws attention to an innovative cultural process⸺the first one since the imposition of the military dictatorship (1964–85) that drove the writer into exile and would last for another three years⸺and was created through an [...]

In this essay, Roberto Schwarz discusses the growing prevalence of leftist politics in Brazilian cultural circles after the military coup of 1964 (which kept its grip on power for two decades). He confirms that, the right wing military dictatorship [...]

The idea that serves as the underpinning of this essay, “Nacional por subtração” [National with a Minus Sign], derives from the fact that ever since the time of Brazilian Independence (1822), Latin Americans have experienced a sense of “ [...]