Refined material : petroculture and modernity in Venezuela /
Beginning with the oil blowout in 1922 that is considered the moment that marked Venezuela's entry into a 'modern' era, Refined Material explores the integral relationship between Venezuelan oil industry and artistic production. In this groundbreaking study, Sean Nesselrode Moncada ex...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Studies on Latin American art ;
8. |
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| Summary: | Beginning with the oil blowout in 1922 that is considered the moment that marked Venezuela's entry into a 'modern' era, Refined Material explores the integral relationship between Venezuelan oil industry and artistic production. In this groundbreaking study, Sean Nesselrode Moncada examines Venezuela's mid-century art and architecture in an argument that reinforces the inextricability of the rise of a capitalist and centralized state from life, activism and art. 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. Looking at five different but interrelated case studies, a print magazine, a planned housing community, a luxury hotel, a kinetic museum installation and a documentary film, this book brings forth a novel reading to the renowned Venezuelan modernist canon and 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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| Physical Description: | xii, 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520392465 0520392469 |