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El techo de la ballena : retro-modernity in Venezuela / María C. Gaztambide.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaztambide, María C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Techo de la Ballena (Literary group)--Exhibitions.
- Techo de la Ballena (Literary group).
- Art, Venezuelan--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Venezuelan.
- Art--Venezuela--Caracas--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Venezuela--Caracas.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 213 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- In this volume, María C. Gaztambide presents an account of the visual arts production of the Caracas-based collective El Techo de la Ballena (active 1961-69).
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The site of paradise
- The liminal space of Venezuelan informalism
- The contingency of the whale
- The authority of kitsch
- Dead matter for an enlivened practice
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781683400707
- 1683400704
- OCLC:
- 1035819081
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