Refined Material : Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art
ISBN-10
0520392469
ISBN-13
9780520392465
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2023
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
1,260 grams
Dimensions
18.70 x 24.00 x 3.30 cms
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Venezuela’s turbulent twentieth century saw boom and bust as the former Spanish colony transformed into a major postwar cultural player. In this sweeping study of visual and material production, Sean Nesselrode Moncada explores the integral relationship between the global oil industry and the celebrated rise of geometric abstraction, kinetic art, and modern architecture in midcentury Venezuela. Oil provided the crucible for national reinvention, ushering in a period of dizzying optimism and bitter disillusion as artists, architects, graphic designers, activists, and critics sought to define the terms of modernity. An innovative, transdisciplinary reevaluation of Venezuelan modernism, Refined Material reveals how the logic of refinement conditioned the terms of development and redefined our relationship to nature, matter, and one another.
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