ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide a critical contribution to the discourse. It introduces the influences of the expressionist movement on the cultural milieu of the Latin American countries. The chapter describes the types of connections that enabled and determined the processes of appropriation of the movement’s principles and values in the region. It explores the contribution of expressionism to the creation of a local discourse regarding social problems and aspects of modernity specific to Latin America. In Latin America, expressionist tendencies developed in architecture, painting, sculpture, and engraving, but these also extended to literature, theatre, dance, music, and film. Cities like Paris, Berlin, and Madrid were cultural and historical landmarks for Latin American artists; painters traveled with the aim of improving their training and then, upon their return, contributing to local artistic environments. The chapter provides some problems for further debate and analysis of transatlantic expressionism.
