Refined Material

Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela

Sean Nesselrode Moncada (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39246-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Sean Nesselrode Moncada is Associate Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art ; 8
Zusatzinfo	97 color illustrations, 1 line diagram
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1270 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-39246-9 / 0520392469
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39246-5 / 9780520392465
Zustand	Neuware