Title: Caracterización de la pintura peruana
Description: A selection of previously published essays by noted art critic Juan Acha (Piura-Perú, 1916-1995). Juan Wilfredo Acha Valdivieso, who lived in Mexico, was one of the main advocates of avant-garde art in Peru in the mid-sixties. In his writingsboth essays and journalistic articleshe defended PopArt and Op Art on a theoretical level and supported young artists producing work of that sort in the framework of the developmental ideology of the time. Acha was a central figure in debates on Peruvian and Latin American art in the second half of the 20th century.
Subjects: Peruvian Painting, History
Time periods: 20th century