TY - JOUR AU - Ewa Kubiak PY - 2019/09/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Colonial art of Latin America and the Polish researchers– A review of literature JF - Estudios Latinoamericanos JA - EL VL - 38 IS - 0 SE - Arte colonial y moderno DO - 10.36447/Estudios2018.v38.art5 UR - https://estudioslatinoamericanos.pl/index.php/estudios/article/view/ES_38_5_Kubiak AB - Colonial art of Latin America has long attracted interest of Polish art historians and art theoreticians.However, despite fascination with exotic forms and aesthetics, this problem rarely appeared in twentiethcenturystudies, mainly due to limitations of research and travel opportunities. Among those interested incolonial art were such famous researchers as Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zbigniew Hornung or Jan Białostocki. References to the Latin American Baroque were also made in a three-volume work by Mieczysław Porębskiand Ksawery Piwocki titled History of art in outline. Th e list ends with the item published in 1994. Th is isa chapter devised by Przemysław Trzeciak entitled Modern Latin American Architecture. which is a part ofthe seventh volume of the series World Art. Among the mentioned works, those which deserve more detaileddiscussion are works by Jan Białostocki, who was the author of the most extensive texts on colonial art. Hewas also a valued researcher on the other side of the ocean, and his studies, especially those in the fi eld oficonography, infl uenced the elaborations on colonial art and the art of modern Latin America. ER -