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Refined material : petroculture and modernity in Venezuela
- Title
- Refined material : petroculture and modernity in Venezuela / Sean Nesselrode Moncada.
- Author
- Nesselrode Moncada, Sean, 1986-
- Publication
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xii, 376 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Studies on Latin American art ; 8
- Uniform Title
- Studies on Latin American art ; 8.
- Subjects
- Community development
- Cultural fusion and the arts
- Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects
- Art and industry
- History
- 1900-1999
- Venezuela
- Arts, Venezuelan > 20th century
- Community development > Venezuela > History > 20th century
- Cultural fusion and the arts > Venezuela > 20th century
- Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Venezuela > 20th century
- Art and industry > Venezuela > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the alchemy of refinement -- Designing oil -- Refining Amuay -- Building the vista -- Vibrating nature -- Killing the well -- Epilogue : the ooze of history.
- Call Number
- JQE 23-480
- ISBN
- 9780520392465
- 0520392469
- LCCN
- 2022042471
- OCLC
- 1347784033
- Author
- Nesselrode Moncada, Sean, 1986- author.
- Title
- Refined material : petroculture and modernity in Venezuela / Sean Nesselrode Moncada.
- Publisher
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies on Latin American art ; 8Studies on Latin American art ; 8.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JQE 23-480