Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela Volume 8 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520392465)

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.

Author: Sean Nesselrode Moncada
ISBN-10: 0520392469
ISBN-13: 9780520392465
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.78lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.30w x 1.30d