Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

“Balas privadas, corazones públicos” [Private Bullets, Public Hearts] (1994) by the Colombian critic José Hernán Aguilar (b. 1952) is a chapter from the book Nueva imagen [New Image], which presented an overview of sociopolitical and artistic [...]

This document is the closing chapter of the manuscript “Sujeto es predicado,” Sylvia Juliana Suárez’s master’s thesis in art history. In it, she provides an overview and assessment of José Hernán Aguilar’s work in criticism produced in [...]

“I Bienal de Arte de Bogotá” [1st Bogotá Art Biennial], by the Colombian critic and curator Miguel González, is a newspaper article about the event that took place at the Museo de Arte Moderno [Museum of Modern Art] in Bogotá in 1988. Gonzá [...]

This text is the introduction to the master’s thesis “Sujeto es Predicado” by Sylvia Juliana Suárez, defended before the History and Theory of Art and Architecture Department of the Universidad Nacional of Colombia. It consists of a study of [...]

This text by Eduardo Serrano is the introduction to the book Historia de la fotografía en Colombia (1840-1950). In it, Serrano explains the importance of the publication of this book for the fields of art and history insofar as it recovers the [...]

In this retrospective article on Colombian art in the 1980s, critic José Hernán Aguilar condemns the unexpected turn that took place on the local art scene when Conceptualism gave way to “the artistic and ideological pluralism” prevalent in art [...]