With the present volume, the journal formerly published under the title Arte de América Latina / Sztuka Ameryki Południowej is being relaunched as Anuario de Arte Latinoamericano. This renaming follows deliberations within the editorial board and reflects a strategic reorientation that foregrounds both the new publication’s annual format and its affiliation with the Spanish-language scholarly sphere.
The inaugural double issue of Anuario de Arte Latinoamericano (2025/2026), entitled “Brazil” and published exceptionally in English and Portuguese, is devoted to twentieth- and twenty-first-century Brazilian art and culture, approached through transnational, feminist, transgender, and decolonial frameworks. The contributions assembled here collectively interrogate and destabilize the center–periphery paradigm, proposing instead a non-hierarchical understanding of the historically entangled relations between Brazilian and Euro-American cultural formations. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways in which Brazilian art historians and critics have critically engaged with, appropriated, and deconstructed the canon of Eurocentric art history. At the same time, the volume foregrounds transatlantic artistic exchanges between Brazil and East-Central Europe, mobilizing a transnational lens to reassess reductive accounts of modern artists and migrant trajectories in the first half of the twentieth century.
Content
Introduction (Katarzyna Cytlak)
Heloisa Espada
Do biorromantismo à arte concreta: Kázmér Fejér e as conexões entre o abstracionismo no Brasil e na Europa Central
Luis Sandes
Leopoldo Haar, a Polish Artist Behind Modern Window Displays in 1950s São Paulo
Ewa Angoneze-Grela, Diogo Tadeu Vargas Horvath
“Uma tentativa assim eu só poderia fazer em relação a mim mesmo”. A residência de Jorge Zalszupin no Guarujá no contexto do modernismo brasileiro
Cristina Freire
Subterranean Art. Some topics of art and politics in Latin America in the 1960-70’s
Mario Ramiro
Crossed and Merged Borders: The Pop Concept of Plastic and Sound Artists in One Body
Paweł Leszkowicz
Alair Gomes – Body of Pleasure / Body of Pain – Virgilijus Šonta
Claudia Calirman
Aleta Valente: Material Girl
Ana Paula dos Santos Salvat
Arte Barroca Brasileira na Mostra do Redescobrimento: reflexões sobre “display” e autenticidade
Zuzanna Rymkiewicz
Azulejos as a Carrier of Meaning in the Works of Joana Vasconcelos and Adriana Varejão
Joanna Żeromska
Light and the Horizon. Painting Field Dynamics in Lucas Arruda
