Imaginarios prehispánicos en el arte uruguayo: 1870-1970

Countless texts and illustrations provide a debate about the Pre-Columbian influence in the Uruguayan modern and contemporary art, the origin and development of Americanism in the theory and practise of visual arts, and traditions based on the denial of said confluence. The Pre-Columbian imaginary is analysed in the works of Pedro Figari, Joaquín Torres García, Juan Manuel Blanes, Francisco Matto, José Gurvich, Julio Alpuy, Augusto Torres, Luis Mazzey, Gonzalo Fonseca, José Gamarra, Carlos Castellanos, José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, and María Freire, among others.

Texts by Pablo Thiago Rocca, Juan Fló, Olga Larnaudie, Roberto Saprisa, Sonia Bandrymer, Raquel Pontet, and the Uruguayan Plastic Arts Documentation Centre AUCA-IENBA (Centro de Documentación de la Plástica Uruguaya AUCA-IENBA).