Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this article, the painter Gabriel Fernández Ledesma traces the history of European funerary traditions during the colonial period. He explores “The Triumph of Death” and its portrayal on playing cards and in the theater, discussing its [...]

The author recreates the Madrid of the early twentieth century, so as to place the painter Diego Rivera in that context. Diego Rivera was then a student of Eduardo Chicharro through a recommendation from the Mexican painter Dr. Atl. The author [...]

This article by Luis Emilio Soto critiques Argentinean “ultraísmo” [Ultraism]: its poetics, its self-presentation as “avant-garde art”, its relation to the aesthetic approach of the Spanish poet Ramón Gómez de la Sera, the creator of “ [...]

Manuel Maples Arce traces an overview of the sculptor Germán Cueto’s avant-garde œuvre, in Mexico as well as in Spain, followed by Cueto’s collaboration with the estridentista movement, his later stay in Paris and his return to Mexico. He [...]

This is an attempt by Febronio Ortega, a Mexican correspondent in Europe, to define the particular traits of the ultraist movement launched in Spain during the period following the First World War, and spread to America, (mainly Argentina) as a new [...]

While visiting Argentina, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros forms his opinions about Argentinean culture from an ideological split. In his view there are two columns that he calls, in general: the aristocratic and the red one, defined by their [...]

This article describes, by and large, the character embedded in the literary works of Spaniard writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna, and then finally pauses to briefly describe the book La Sagrada Cripta de Pombo [The Sacred Crypt at Pombo] (1924). “ [...]

A literary text in which Oliverio Girondo expresses his impatience regarding the imminent arrival in Buenos Aires of Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Finally, even though the trip did not take shape, Girondo decided to publish the supplement [...]

Text by Jorge Luis Borges written as a tribute of the well-known Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna upon his imminent arrival to Buenos Aires. In a literary prose, Borges mentions a number of writers, including himself, that consider the [...]

The author expresses his opinion with respect to the literary work of Gómez de la Serna and of the writer’s persona in general. Fernandez emphasizes the writer’s place as the “strongest figure of contemporary literary art” and that “his [...]

This anonymous article discusses the delay in the arrival of Ramón Gómez de la Serna to Buenos Aires due to a cold. It clarifies that his delay did not postpon the publication of a supplement in his honor assembled by the journal Martín Fierro, a [...]