Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article Jorge Falcón reviews De Manet a nuestros días, the exhibition of French painting that opened at the Municipalidad de Lima on March 15, 1950. According to the writer and militant communist, the exhibition’s local reception—which [...]

Here the eclectic artist Regina Silveira compares her serial project Artemicro with an imagined miniature, beautifully crafted version of Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland. To Silveira, the Artemicro project was installed in an open field [...]

In this article, the art critic Marta Traba sought to define the quality of “genius” in art in terms of the concept of “anti-servile genius” suggested by the French novelist André Malraux. According to Traba, one of the main features of “ [...]

This essay is by Peruvian art critic and poet Alejandro Lora Risco regarding the French artist Jean Dewasne and the incomprehension demonstrated by his colleagues relating to Dewasne’s exhibition at the Galería de Lima. Lora Risco relies on Andr [...]