Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This essay, by the Puerto Rican writer and university professor Eugenio Fernández Méndez, sketches the life story of the Puerto Rican artist José R. Alicea on the occasion of the tribute exhibition in his honor at the IV Bienal de San Juan del [...]

This timeline tracks the life of Puerto Rican artist Rafael Tufiño, who lived in New York and in Mexico City. Puerto Rican intellectuals Manuel Cárdenas Ruiz and Eugenio Fernández Méndez review the graphic work produced by Tufiño between the [...]

Puerto Rican historian Eugenio Fernández Méndez submits a “descriptive and literary review of how artists from different periods have viewed the history of Puerto Rico.” He remarks that it is important to be universal, but claims that one must [...]