Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The Liga pro-luchadores perseguidos [League for Support of Persecuted Fighters] objected to a letter written by Enea Sormenti [a.k.a. Vittorio Vidali] to the Editorial Department of El Machete. Sormenti was Secretary of the Liga Antifascista de Mé [...]

The correspondent for The Daily Worker in Chicago creates a context for his readers concerning the formation of a Communist and a revolutionary art in Mexico, which describes on the walls of public buildings the useless life of the upper classes and [...]

In the newspaper El Mundo, an anonymous writer urges people to make clear what side they’re on: whether with the painters of the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (ENP) or against the motifs and dimensions presented there. While the matter was treated [...]

Diego Rivera insists that what he painted on his transportable mural—titled Gloriosa Victoria [Glorious Victory] and inspired by recent events in Guatemala—was an accurate representation, based on facts provided by reliable sources. Rivera [...]