Refined Material : Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela (Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art)

Nesselrode Moncada, Sean

University of California Press（2023/08発売）

University of California Press（2023/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520392465
• DDC分類 700.987

Full Description

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. 

Contents

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

Introduction: The Alchemy of Refinement 

1 Designing Oil 
2 Refi ning Amuay 
3 Building the Vista 
4 Vibrating Nature 
5 Killing the Well 

Epilogue: The Ooze of History 

NOTES 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
INDEX