Biron, R. (2009). City/Art: The urban scene in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press.

Rebecca Biron is a university professor in Spanish and Portuguese, with qualifications in gender studies and comparative literature. She has collected many different perspectives, from anthropologists, critics, philosophers, and architects, to contribute this book which provides an overview of street art as it is represented across Latin America. It was printed by a university press and boasts a variety of voices and perspectives. There is varied information about street art across Latin America, as well as a specific section Buenos Aires as well. The quality of voices throughout the book may vary, as well as their qualifications, but for a reading on street art in Buenos Aires, and Latin America in general, this book would probably be very useful.

Davila-Villa, U. (2011). Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires. Austin, Texas: University of Texas.

Ursula Davila-Villa is a curator with a specialty in Latin American art at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, and this text is actually an overview of the exhibitions, rather than a response to them, as the other piece by the same title is. This contains some information on the artists and art philosophy, and might be more useful as a partial primary source document - however, it would still not be very useful, as it seems it was a pamphlet available for perusal at the exhibition, and not a dense scholarly document.

Garcia, V. (2006). Evolution in the Urban Jungle. Novum, January, 62-67.

Novum is a respected publication in the art world, though perhaps not as rigorous by scholarly standards as some. Victor Garcia is also a highly respected graphic artist and designer with a great deal of experience in his craft. He could be considered an expert in his areas of focus in the art world. As such, his analysis of art in public spaces would be worthwhile to read and consider. This article is somewhat behind the times, as things in the art world do evolve and trends come and go, but as he does have considerable experience, this article would be useful for reading about artwork and public spaces anyway.

Lynton, N. (1998). Mixing the Media. Modern Painters, Volume 11 (Issue 2), 98-99.

Lynton is a professor at University of Sussex specializing in Art History. He has significant experience and expertise in his subject. This article in particular focuses on the artistic work of Pablo Neruda and Peter Griffin. The article is fairly short, although it is written by someone with considerable expertise, and its focus is not on the significance of street art or graffiti in Latin America, so it would probably be less useful for this research project.

Moosmann, C (2005). Time for Action. Novum, August, 30-34.

Christine Moosmann is the editor for Novum magazine, a respected art publication. I could not find an explicit list of her credentials and expertise, but the article itself deals with an Argentinean group of artists known as Doma, which specializes in street art among other things to open communications and carry out social commentary. Thus, this article by Moosmann may not be as reliable as some others, but focusing on the example of a particular artists' group certainly makes the paper useful for this research project.

Oliveras, E. (2011). Pablo de Monte. Art Nexus, Volume 10 (Issue 80), 91-92.

Oliveras is highly qualified as an art critic, with degrees from both Buenos Aires and Paris. She has published several books on art and art history and was the vicepresident of the Argentinean Association of Art Critics, so she is well-qualified to discuss art. In this text she discusses an artist whose work draws heavily on inspiration from street art and graffiti, which would be useful for this research project as it addresses the influence street art has had in the art world. Unfortunately, the article is not very long, so although the information is reliable and probably useful, other resources would also need to be found.

Quiles, D. (2011). Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires. Artforum International, Volume 49 (Issue 10), 410-411.

"Recovering Beauty" was an art exhibition by several Argentinean artists from the 1990s that showed at the University of Texas, and this text is a response to it. Quiles is a faculty member at the Institute of Chicago, specializing in art theory, history, and criticism, so he certainly has experience in his field and it would be worthwhile to at least read this overview of the show. Unfortunately the citation is also very brief, so it would probably not be extremely useful.

Riggle, N. A. (2010). Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces. Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Volume 68 (Issue 3), 243-257.

Riggle's focus on street art and its role in transforming and modifying the spaces it occupies is certainly relevant to the topic of street art in Buenos Aires and Latin America, however, Riggle is unfortunately a graduate student rather than a highly-regarded scholar with a large amount of experience. While this article might be very useful, it is not as reliable as other articles written by scholars who have more experience as experts in their field.

Ruiz, M. (2011). Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art. Berlin: Gestalten.

Nuevo Mundo provides an overview of street art in Latin America today. The book is well-organized, divided into different chapters by country, including a section on Argentina. There are both photos to display the street art of various regions, and text to provide insight on the writings that inspired the art we see going viral in the street. Ruiz himself is an author, a curator, and a film director, so he does have some expertise regarding the art world, though it was difficult finding an exact list of his credentials - still, the breadth of the work would make it useful as a reference source for a research paper regarding Argentinean street art.

Sedgwick, K. (2010). Graffiti Mundo: Street art for the people in Buenos Aires. Matadornights. Retrieved from http://matadornetwork.com/nights/graffiti-mundo-street-art-for-the-people-in-buenos-aires/

This web page is more of interest for its gallery exhibiting some photos of street art murals and paintings in Buenos Aires than for its entertainment blog commentary. Since it provides some examples to serve as a primary source document, it is of interest for this reason, although the commentary in the article is not academic, as the author seems to be more interested in selling a tour of Buenos Aires.

Garcia, Victor. "Evolution in the Urban Jungle." Novum (January 2006): 62-67. Print.
Moosmann, Christine. "Time for Action." Novum (August 2005): 30-34. Print.

Both of these sources are from Novum magazine, which is a European art publication that provides an overview of the art scene in Europe. Novum is a reasonably respected publication, though perhaps not as rigorous as some scholarly magazines they do have a decent handle on the art scene and provide a variety of points of view. The articles are not long, but they cover a few pages and are substantial enough to serve as references. For a topic like mine, I would go to Novum to find references, but the zine seems to have an established circle of staff who write articles, though things can also be submitted. Therefore I would supplement references from Novum with other references.

Victor Garcia is a graphic artist/type designer and won prizes in advertising and graphic design. I would respect his analysis of the art world because he has good credentials and lots of experience. He's been on Novum's staff since 2002, but has many more years of experience in the art world. I could not find quite so extensive a list of credentials for Christine Moosmann but she also seems to be on the Novum staff, which would call for art credentials.


Lynton, Norbert. "Mixing the media." Modern Painters 11.2 (1998): 98-99. Print.

Norbert Lynton was a professor at the University of Sussex, specializing in the History of Art. The article is unfortunately quite short, so I would not rely on this as a foundation reference for my paper, but I would at least read the article and consider its content as support for my arguments and as a source of reference, since Mr. Lynton would have the expertise to talk about the evolution of art and art movements if he was teaching in the field of art history. He has done a good amount of publishing academic books about the art world as well, so I would consider his word as respectable. In this case, I would weight the publication less.

Oliveras, Elena. "Pablo de Monte." Art Nexus 10.80 (2011): 91-92. Print.

Elena Olivieras is actually Argentinean! She is an art critic and curator and has degrees from both Argentina and Paris. She was the vicepresident of the Argentinean Association of Art Critics and has published several books on art and art theory. She has good training in her field, though again the article is short, simply a review of a particular artist. Thus I would not rely on it as a foundation source for my paper, but I would read it and consider citing it and looking up more of her other work. My paper focuses on Argentinean street art, after all, and she might be able to offer valuable perspectives.

Biron, Rebecca. City/Art: the Urban Scene in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. Print.

The book was published under a university press, so the source would seem to be academically respectable and reliable. The author, on the other hand, is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, with specializations in gender studies and comparative literature. She is extremely well-educated, but I am not sure that her expertise would be exactly in the area I want to research. I would still use the work as a reference but I would try to find more sources addressing the same phenomena so I could compare and contrast and see how well she lined up.

Ruiz, Maximiliano. Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art. Berlin: Gestalten, 2011. Print.

I had a hard time evaluating this source, though the book sounds as though it is largely a collection of photographs broken down by country, artist, neighborhood, and so on, giving an overview of the street art scene in Latin America as a whole. I would definitely use this book as a primary resource if possible, and might give its analysis more weight depending on the further information I could find as to the credentials of the author.

Quiles, Daniel. Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires. Austin: University of Texas, 2011. Print.

Daniel Quiles is a faculty member at the Institute of Chicago, specializing in art theory, history and criticism. He is also being published under a university press, doing an art review. I would consider this source to be sound.

Riggle, Nicholas Alden. "Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces." Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism 68.3 (2010): 243-257. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

Riggle is a fourth-year PhD student with a BA from Berkely, studying at New York University in the Department of Philosophy. I would read his paper with great interest, since he may well be an intelligent and well-read student, but I would not rely on his paper because he is a student and not an accredited expert yet. He managed to be published, which is telling, and has probably done his homework. I would look at the works he cited in his article to do my paper and possibly integrate some of the arguments his paper made into mine, but would not rely on this paper.

Better late than never!

Quiles, Daniel. Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Aires. Austin: University of Texas, 2011. Print.

Biron, Rebecca. City/Art: the Urban Scene in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. Print.

Ruiz, Maximiliano. Nuevo Mundo: Latin American Street Art. Berlin: Gestalten, 2011. Print.

Primary source: http://matadornetwork.com/nights/graffiti-mundo-street-art-for-the-people-in-buenos-aires/ - the commentary in this link would stand as a secondary source, however, this link is being presented as a primary source due to the gallery of photographs of Buenos Aires street art that the page also contains. Original works of art count as primary sources, as the works themselves need to be interpreted, thus this page does stand as a primary source.

Secondary source: RIGGLE, NICHOLAS ALDEN. "Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces." Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism 68.3 (2010): 243-257. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 3 Oct. 2011.

This source discusses street art and its role in the art world, as well as how street art has developed as a backlash against other art movements in general such as pop art and how the world of street art differs from the world of "high" or established art. It is a secondary source because it offers a commentary on and interpretation of a concrete phenomena.