Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art
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Tarsila do Amaral's paintings of rural Brazilian landscapes present a natural world replete with vibrant colors, whimsical creatures, and luxuriant plant life. By co-opting aspects of surrealism's visual lexicon, particularly biomorphism,... more
El artículo ofrece una valoración inédita del recorrido internacional de Max Jiménez Huete (1900-1947), figura nuclear para el arte de vanguardia costarricense y centroamericano. A pesar de haber sido marginado del relato canónico del... more
Este artículo estudia la inclusión de las mujeres en la política de la Buena Vecindad examinando en particular el rol de la directora del Museo de Arte de San Francisco, Grace Morley, una reconocida experta de los Estados Unidos. Durante... more
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Es ist eine häufig erzählte Geschichte, dass Paris am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts das Weltzentrum der Kunst gewesen sei. Dieses Buch fragt danach, welchen Beitrag Ausstellungen zwischen 1921 und 1946 zur Entwicklung und Verbreitung dieser... more
Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America opened on 18 November 2023 and ran at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS) until 24 March 2024. NGS's website states that the exhibition is "the first large-scale museum exhibition... more
Das Doppel-Issue Miradas 5 und 6 thematisiert Körper und Moden in den Amérikas aus vielfältigen Perspektiven und diskutiert künstlerisch überlieferte Körperkonzepte ebenso wie künstlerische Reflexionen derselben. Die Geschichte der... more
Resumen: Alrededor de 1930 el pintor argentino Antonio Berni desarrolla el "Nuevo Realismo". Dentro de esta corriente ejecuta grandes composiciones, con grupos de campesinos y obreros como la obra que aquí presentamos:... more
Este artigo tem como objetivo principal analisar como Marta Traba, grande intelectual e crítica de arte latino-americana, tratou no início da década de 1960 a questão do comprometimento do artista com o fazer artístico e o meio social na... more
Dar forma al tiempo: dialogues with pre-Columbian heritage in Contemporary art in Peru and Bolivia The author proposes a review of the history of contemporary Peruvian and Bolivian art from the perspective of a profound relationship with... more
Elisa Bergel Melo, artista venezolana residenciada en República Dominicana, ha desarrollado una práctica en la que confluyen aspectos de su propia biografía con el modo como se cuestiona la manera de producir imágenes. Siendo hija de... more
Four men sit on a street curb in the early afternoon. They are roughly dressed in the worn, generic manner of the lower classes. Their collective attention is fixed on the eastward passing of cars and trucks through the intersection of... more
In a double-length 2019 Dance Chronicle article, Francisco Sagasti surveys a history of what he calls "computer choreography": uses of computers for staged dance, with a particular emphasis on the use of computers to choreograph dance... more
Análisis descriptivo empleando el método de observación directa de una obra de arte atribuida al autor plástico Jorge Perugachy.
Spanish version of the essay "A Country that Resembles you: Alfredo Boulton and Photography"
El Puente de Q'eswachaka y su inauguración El 5 de julio de 2015, último día del Perú: Pachamama. Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Festival de Tradiciones Populares del Smithsonian) los comuneros procedentes de las cuatro comunidades de... more
Reseña de la película Sin vagina me marginan, (2017) de Weasley Verástegui.
Giovanna M. Bassi Cendra analyzes Argentinean-Czechoslovakian artist Gyula Kosice’s installation La ciudad hidroespacial (1946, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) as a challenge to the notion of a functional city, an idea jointly conceived... more
Critique d'art Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l'art contemporain Toutes les notes de lecture en ligne | 2013
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Artist and designer Elena Izcue first encountered pre-Columbian objects as part of her training in the 1920s at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Lima. Spurred by new archaeological activity in the region, her access to these... more
The prolific production of Arab-Argentine artist Bibí Zogbé remains relatively underexplored in art historical scholarship, largely due to the complex transnational nature of her creative production between Latin America, the Levant, and... more
The main goal of this article is to analyze how Marta Traba, a great intellectual and Latin American art critic, dealt in the early 1960s with the issue of the artist's commitment to artistic work and the social environment in Latin... more
El Puente de Q'eswachaka y su inauguración El 5 de julio de 2015, último día del Perú: Pachamama. Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Festival de Tradiciones Populares del Smithsonian) los comuneros procedentes de las cuatro comunidades de... more
This essay appeared in Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, edited by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, 38-49 (Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2007). It analyzes the arte concreta movement... more
En busca de un paradigma 6 7 rodolfo abularach conversa con marivi vliz RA: En realidad ellos no eran mahometanos. Según mi hermano René, eran maronitas. 1 Mi prima Antonieta estuvo en Palestina, en Santa Catarina, hace algunos años.... more
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Este artículo examina cómo la política de buena vecindad, llevada adelante por el Gobierno norteamericano, construyó un corpus de obras de arte latinoamericanas que se exhibieron en Estados Unidos durante la década de 1940. Analizamos la... more
This essay would not have been possible without the time dedicated by the artist to the interview process. My thanks also to Jesús Fuenmajor who kindly provided feedback on the final version.
This research focuses on Mexican Muralism as a part of an educational initiative introduced following the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Functioning as a didactic art form, the intention of the murals was to educate the masses about its... more
This paper looks at Colombian artist Feliza Bursztyn's work in relation to women artists in the Europe, Japan, and the United States who, like Bursztyn, made feminist-inflected art in the 1960s and early 70s, shortly before the Women's... more
La lectura es, a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, puesta obsesivamente en imagenes. En Argentina, el catalogo de pinturas y grabados de lectores resulta proliferante y disperso: estamos hablando de cientos, varios cientos de imagenes. El... more
Política de los afectos y emociones en producciones culturales de América Latina