In these paired documents, Jacqueline Barnitz, the longtime University of Texas professor and scholar of Latin American art, addresses the question of whether there is in fact such a thing as “Latin American art.” In the first text, Barnitz’s point of departure is a 1966 symposium held at New York’s New School of Social Research where she and her fellow panelists—Thomas Messer of the Guggenheim Museum, Stanton L. Catlin of the Yale University Art Gallery, and painters Ernesto Deira and Marcelo Bonevardi—tackled this very question. She strongly agrees with the Argentinean artists that the formal elements of contemporary work from Latin America stem from Europe; however, Barnitz’s essentialist argument also recognizes specific content and attitudes that she believes are unquestionably Latin American. Barnitz published “The Question of Latin American Art: Does it exist?” in Arts Magazine [(New York City), vol. 47, no. 3 (December–January, 1966–67): 53–55]. It was reprinted and translated into Spanish seventeen years later in San Juan’s Revista Plástica (“‘The Question’ 17 Years Later”) for an issue of the journal [Plástica Latinoamericana, special edition of Plástica. Revista de la Liga de Arte de San Juan [(San Juan: Liga de Estudiantes de Arte de San Juan), year 6, vol. 1, no. 12 (September 1984): 14–16, 94–95 and 17–20, 96–98].