Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda analyzes what he sees as a fundamental aspect of the origin of Brazilian society: the effort to import Iberian culture to America. In the text, Holanda reminds us that Iberia was an “uncertain” region [...]

In his book As Raízes do Brasil [Brazilian Roots] (1936), Sérgio Buarque de Holanda discusses the European settlement of the Americas, comparing the distinguishing features of the Spanish colonization from those of the Portuguese. The Spanish [...]

In this article, the historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda analyzes the various modern art groups that have emerged in Brazil. He notes the differences now compared to what was going on ten years earlier, when a point of view was developing that “ [...]