Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In June 2004, Alexandra Castellanos and Carolina Jaramillo—two students at the Universidad Javeriana’s School of Social Communication located in Bogotá—interviewed visual artist Carmen Gil Vrolijk as part of a degree project entitled “Arte [...]

This text was written by Arlindo Machado and Julio Plaza to be published in the catalogue for Artecnologia, the exhibition that the two authors co-curated and presented on September 2-9, 1985 at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo – [...]

In this essay, São Paulo-based poet Augusto de Campos describes the diverse graphic elements—from the movable types and artisanal resources of conventional typography he used in 1953 to the Intergraph, a high-resolution graphic computer he used in [...]

In this review, Ligia Canongia discusses the various exhibitions of work by Brazilian artists that were being shown in Italy at that time, in the early 1980s. The art critic notes the increasing use of mass media in international art since the 1970s [...]

This essay states that Brazilian photography was usually seen through an anthropological lens and analyzed as a form of purely autonomous expression; it is now being examined in this text as a process for seeking identity and for an establishment of [...]

This text, “Arte y Diseño Multimedia: El cruce entre dos maneras de entender el mundo” [Multimedia Art and Design: The Intersection of Two Ways to Understand the World], is part of the compilation El Medio es el Diseño Audiovisual [The Medium [...]