Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

These texts are selections from a book that includes 128 watercolors, created between 1940 and 1980 by the Argentine visual artist known as Carybé. The book records different aspects of the Afro-Brazilian rites of Candomblé: there are illustrations [...]

The Cartilla de dibujo [Drawing Handbook], published in Bogotá in 1935 by the artist Miguel Díaz Vargas, was essentially created for teaching drawing in elementary school. The book’s structure is clearly pedagogical. It has a brief introduction [...]

Six different writers and artists from Puerto Rico provide their view of an exhibition of Walt Dehner’s work and of his production in general. In “Dominio de la técnica y multiplicidad de estilos” [Mastery of Technique and Multiplicity of [...]