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Refined material : petroculture and modernity in Venezuela / Sean Nesselrode Moncada.
LIBRA N72.I53 N47 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nesselrode Moncada, Sean, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Studies on Latin American art ; 8.
- Studies on Latin American art ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and industry--Venezuela--20th century.
- Art and industry.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects--Venezuela--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Cultural fusion and the arts--Venezuela--20th century.
- Cultural fusion and the arts.
- Community development--Venezuela--History--20th century.
- Community development.
- Arts, Venezuelan--20th century.
- Arts, Venezuelan.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects.
- Venezuela.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 376 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Beginning with the oil blowout in 1922 that is considered the moment that marked Venezuela's entry into a 'modern' era, Refined Material explores the integral relationship between Venezuelan oil industry and artistic production. In this groundbreaking study, Sean Nesselrode Moncada examines Venezuela's mid-century art and architecture in an argument that reinforces the inextricability of the rise of a capitalist and centralized state from life, activism, and art. 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. Looking at five different but interrelated case studies--a print magazine, a planned housing community, a luxury hotel, a kinetic museum installation, and a documentary film--this book brings forth a novel reading to the renowned Venezuelan modernist canon and reveals how the logic of refinement conditioned the terms of development and redefined our relationship to nature, matter, and one another"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the alchemy of refinement
- Designing oil
- Refining Amuay
- Building the vista
- Vibrating nature
- Killing the well
- Epilogue : the ooze of history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520392465
- 0520392469
- OCLC:
- 1347784033
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