Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is the closing report of the Primeiro Congresso Nacional de Intelectuais held in 1954 in Goiânia, state of Goiás. It was written by journalist Salim Miguel—a member of the Delegação de Santa Catarina—for publication in the magazine Sul [...]

Gilberto Freyre’s essay highlights the importance of research into the origins of Brazilian culture and the Brazilian people, as well as their “interpersonal” and interregional relationships, noting that those who interpreted that data were [...]

This document is the response from a group of intellectuals who wrote a letter in support of a call by the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral—the pseudonym of the educator and diplomat Lucila Godoy Alcayaga—for a Continental Conference on Culture in [...]

In this article, the critic Jorge Juan Crespo de la Serna discusses the Asociación Internacional de Críticos de Arte (AICA) [International Association of Art Critics], that was founded in Paris in 1949. Prompted by his recent meeting in Mexico with [...]

This extensive document covers the various phases of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios [LEAR, League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists] and the international causes the organization supported. Despite being billed as a “Congreso [...]

The text poses several key starting points drawn up by the work group involved in the II Encuentro de Intelectuales por la soberanía de los pueblos de nuestra América  [Second Encounter of Intellectuals for the Sovereignty of the Peoples of Our [...]

Le Parc’s text points out that the I Encuentro Iberoamericano de Críticos de Arte y Artistas Plásticos [First Latin American Art Critics and Visual Artists Encounter] (Caracas, 1978) was indeed positive because it allowed for the exchange of [...]