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.
| ISBN: | 9780520392465 |
| Publication date: | 25th October 2023 |
| Author: | Sean Nesselrode Moncada |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Latin American Art |
| Genres: |
History of art History of design |
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.
Refined Material features in the following genres: History of art, History of design
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Refined Material was written by Sean Nesselrode Moncada and published by University of California Press
Refined Material has 400 pages
Yes it is part of Studies on Latin American Art series
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