Description
| Product ID: | 9780520392465 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art |
| Title: | Refined Material |
| Subtitle: | Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela |
| Authors: | Author: Sean Nesselrode Moncada |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art / art & design styles, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, History of architecture, History of the Americas, Ethnic studies, Industrial / commercial art & design, History of architecture, History of the Americas, Ethnic studies, Caribbean islands, Latin America, South America |
| 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-29 |