Handbook of Latin American Art (Manual de arte latinoamericano): A Bibliographic Compilation. Volume II: Art of the Colonial Period.

1987 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Cornelis Ch. Goslinga ◽  
Joyce Waddell Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Latin American Art

The First History of Latin American Art

1946 ◽  
Vol 2 (03) ◽  
pp. 357-368
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Attention To Detail

Students of Latin American art of the colonial period will agree that this book, which deals with the development of architecture in Spanish America during the sixteenth century, is the most important analysis of the subject that has yet been made. Prepared with the assistance of the Spanish government and the cooperation of private investigators and government agencies in Latin America, this book is the first of a series of volumes which, it is to be hoped, will eventually present the whole history of Hispanic American art. It brings together for the first time a mass of factual information taken from source material of the period concerning the earliest monuments of Spanish building from Mexico to BoliVia and interprets it in the light of Spanish architecture of the time with a knowledge and an attention to detail never before applied on such a scale. Almost without exception every building mentioned is fully illustrated, plans of the more important are provided, together with diagrams of variant architectural details such as moldings, bases and arches, and whenever possible contemporary architect’s drawings from the Archivo de Indias in Seville are submitted as well. Although a good deal of this material had previously been published in one form or another, there is much that had not been, especially in the chapters devoted to South America. The work therefore goes beyond the mere compilation of facts already recorded and presents a whole series of new monuments on the basis of original investigation.

The First History of Latin American Art

1946 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Time ◽  
Attention To Detail

Students of Latin American art of the colonial period will agree that this book, which deals with the development of architecture in Spanish America during the sixteenth century, is the most important analysis of the subject that has yet been made. Prepared with the assistance of the Spanish government and the cooperation of private investigators and government agencies in Latin America, this book is the first of a series of volumes which, it is to be hoped, will eventually present the whole history of Hispanic American art. It brings together for the first time a mass of factual information taken from source material of the period concerning the earliest monuments of Spanish building from Mexico to BoliVia and interprets it in the light of Spanish architecture of the time with a knowledge and an attention to detail never before applied on such a scale. Almost without exception every building mentioned is fully illustrated, plans of the more important are provided, together with diagrams of variant architectural details such as moldings, bases and arches, and whenever possible contemporary architect’s drawings from the Archivo de Indias in Seville are submitted as well. Although a good deal of this material had previously been published in one form or another, there is much that had not been, especially in the chapters devoted to South America. The work therefore goes beyond the mere compilation of facts already recorded and presents a whole series of new monuments on the basis of original investigation.

Appropriating the Improper: The Problem of Influence in Latin American Art

ARTMargins ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-59
Author(s):  
Carla Macchiavello
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Political Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Art Forms

This paper centers on the problem of influence in Latin American art analyzing some of the changes its conceptualization underwent during the 1970s and 1980s. Taking the case of Chilean conceptual practices during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship known as “escena de avanzada,” particularly the art actions of the collective CADA, and the isolationist discourses woven around it, this article attempts to reconnect what has been regarded as original political art forms to larger networks of relations where the question of what is proper to Latin American art was disputed.

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