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Author: María C. Gaztambide Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 1683400763 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 257
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The work of the 1960s Caracas-based art collective El Techo de la Ballena (The Roof of the Whale) was called “subversive” and “art terrorism” and seen as a threat to Venezuela’s national image as an emerging industrial power. This volume details the historical and social contexts that shaped the collective, exploring how its anti-art aesthetic highlighted the shortcomings of the country’s newfound oil wealth and transition to democracy. Every element used by these radicalized artists in their avant-garde exhibitions—from Informalist canvases to torn book pages and kitsch objects to cattle carcasses and scatological content—issued a critique of Venezuela’s petroleum-driven capitalism and the profound inequality left in its wake. Embracing chaos, the artists contradicted the country’s politically sanctioned view of modernity, which championed constant progress in the visual arts and favored geometric abstraction and kinetic art. El Techo’s was a backward—a retrograde—modernity, argues María Gaztambide, discussing how its artists turned against the norm by incorporating anachronistic postures, primeval symbols, colonial Latin American print culture, and “guerilla” art tactics. Artists in this group tested limits to provoke what they saw as a numbed local public through shocking displays of criticism and frustration. Today, as Venezuela undergoes another dramatic series of sociopolitical changes, El Techo de la Ballena serves as a reminder of the power of art in resisting the status quo and effecting change in society.
Author: María C. Gaztambide Publisher: University Press of Florida ISBN: 1683400763 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
The work of the 1960s Caracas-based art collective El Techo de la Ballena (The Roof of the Whale) was called “subversive” and “art terrorism” and seen as a threat to Venezuela’s national image as an emerging industrial power. This volume details the historical and social contexts that shaped the collective, exploring how its anti-art aesthetic highlighted the shortcomings of the country’s newfound oil wealth and transition to democracy. Every element used by these radicalized artists in their avant-garde exhibitions—from Informalist canvases to torn book pages and kitsch objects to cattle carcasses and scatological content—issued a critique of Venezuela’s petroleum-driven capitalism and the profound inequality left in its wake. Embracing chaos, the artists contradicted the country’s politically sanctioned view of modernity, which championed constant progress in the visual arts and favored geometric abstraction and kinetic art. El Techo’s was a backward—a retrograde—modernity, argues María Gaztambide, discussing how its artists turned against the norm by incorporating anachronistic postures, primeval symbols, colonial Latin American print culture, and “guerilla” art tactics. Artists in this group tested limits to provoke what they saw as a numbed local public through shocking displays of criticism and frustration. Today, as Venezuela undergoes another dramatic series of sociopolitical changes, El Techo de la Ballena serves as a reminder of the power of art in resisting the status quo and effecting change in society.
Author: Héctor Olea Galaviz Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300102690 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 618
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In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for
Author: Mariola V. Alvarez Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351062123 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 246
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This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume the leading role Europe had played before World War II. Latin American artists practiced gestural and geometric abstraction, though the history of art has favored the latter. Recent scholarship, for instance, has focused on geometric abstraction from Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. The book aims to expand the map and consider this phenomenon as it developed in neglected regions such as Central America and the Andes, investigatinghow this style came to stand in for Latin American contemporary art.
Author: Luis Camnitzer Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292716292 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 368
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Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the commercialization of art. Latin American artists turned to conceptualism as a vehicle for radically questioning the very nature of art itself, as well as art's role in responding to societal needs and crises in conjunction with politics, poetry, and pedagogy. Because of this distinctive agenda, Latin American conceptualism must be viewed and understood in its own right, not as a derivative of Euroamerican models. In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptualist artists, Luis Camnitzer, offers a firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history Latin America, he explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American culture. He shows how the roots of conceptualism reach back to the early nineteenth century in the work of Símon Rodríguez, Símon Bolívar's tutor. Camnitzer then follows conceptualism to the point where art crossed into politics, as with the Argentinian group Tucumán arde in 1968, and where politics crossed into art, as with the Tupamaro movement in Uruguay during the 1960s and early 1970s. Camnitzer concludes by investigating how, after 1970, conceptualist manifestations returned to the fold of more conventional art and describes some of the consequences that followed when art evolved from being a political tool to become what is known as "political art."
Author: Sean Nesselrode Moncada Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520392469 Category : Art and industry Languages : en Pages : 394
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"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"--
Author: Ariel Jiménez Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art ISBN: 9780870707100 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 396
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Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) was Venezuela's foremost cultural and aesthetic observer of the 20th century. An art critic, cultural historian and photographer, he was highly influential in the development of modernist art and discourse, and of cultural self-definition, in Venezuela and the surrounding region. Boulton's diverse contributions serve as a point of departure in this remarkable selection of art-historical and critical texts by many of the prominent Latin American thinkers of this period, figures whose works and ideas helped to shape the face of contemporary Venezuela. Through the manifestos, correspondences and critical writings of these notable voices of the day, this anthology traces Venezuela's struggle toward modernity and toward a successful, autonomous identify on the international cultural scene. In addition to historical writings, the volume includes newly written critical and explanatory essays by contemporary scholars, providing context and insight to these significant texts that have become constant reference points for generations of artists, critics and art historians.
Author: Publisher: FUNDACIÓN CAUPOLICAN OVALLES ISBN: 9807861004 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Duerme usted, señor Presidente? es el poemario que ha sido catalogado como la obra cumbre del escritor venezolano Caupolicán Ovalles. El texto fue publicado por primera vez en Caracas en 1962, por las Ediciones del Techo de la Ballena, principal grupo artístico y literario de los movimientos de izquierda y vanguardia de la Venezuela de mediados del Siglo XX. En 1973 fue reeditado por el MÁS y en 2010 por la editorial Mondadori. Actualmente, se encuentra disponible en digital en la web de El Perro y la Rana, y se espera su nueva publicación de la mano de la Fundación Caupolicán Ovalles, con motivo del 65 aniversario del poemario. Punzante y libre de convencionalismos, este libro revela la mirada crítica de Ovalles ante las labores (o, más bien, ante el adormecimiento) de la dirigencia política de entonces, encabezada por el presidente Rómulo Betancourt. Se trata del primer libro de poesía de este autor, y se encuentra integrado por cuatro poemas en los que dos llevan el título homónimo del libro. Los otros fueron titulados Muy triste, muy triste y Si en vez de dormir. Los versos de ¿Duerme usted, señor Presidente?, con figuras poéticas que oscilan entre la mofa y el lirismo, pretendían desnudar desde la palabra las inconsistencias del gobierno de Betancourt, con una mirada que atravesaba el crisol del inconformismo de los grupos de la izquierda venezolana. Su escritura está también regida en términos estéticos por el desarrollo de la vanguardia literaria, que nació a nivel global en respuesta al agotamiento de los cánones formales.3 En el prólogo, el también escritor Adriano González León describió al ejemplar como «desusadamente adicto al desafío, aprovechando la materia hasta ahora denominada ‘no poética’, en un giro decididamente singular, porque existe una fatiga cuando se descubre la ineficiencia de la palabra tradicional, lo inoportuno del ejercicio culto, la triste invalidez de lo literario cuando ‘arrecia la enfermedad de vivir’».4 En ese sentido, continúa, «en el caso de Caupolicán Ovalles, además del cansancio verbal, existen otras razones de fastidio, demasiado concretas, demasiado evidentes en nuestra hora hasta para el ojo menos alerta, que lo arrastran al abandono de toda preocupación correcta y normal por el lenguaje». El escritor, docente e investigador de literatura Miguel Marcotrigiano asegura que en el libro «la figura del ‘presidente de la república’ (así, en minúscula) aparece caracterizada en este poema como inconsciente, minimizada en su masculinidad, ignorante de la realidad, con aires de grandeza, demagógica y se le endilgan pecados como la gula, la soberbia, la avaricia y algunos más». Además, el autor concreta «Si entendemos por un clásico de la literatura la capacidad de trascender en el tiempo y espacio de un tiempo literario y la cualidad consistente en la adaptación a circunstancias similares, aún cuando ya no estén activas los contexto de origen, este poema, ¿Duerme usted, señor Presidente?, de Caupolicán Ovalles, constituye en cierto modo este concepto».
Author: Jessica Lack Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241236339 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 528
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'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right'. This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together political activists, anti-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Négritude movement in Europe, Africa and Martinique to Japan's Bikyoto, from Iraqi modernism to Australian cyberfeminism, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world.
Author: Daniel Balderston Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113439960X Category : Caribbean literature Languages : en Pages : 701
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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres, schools and movements in these regions from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. With more than 200 entries written by a team of international contributors, this Encyclopedia successfully covers the popular to the esoteric.The Encyclopedia is an invaluable reference resource for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature as well.
Author: Hubert Pöppel Publisher: Iberoamericana Editorial ISBN: 9788484893417 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : es Pages : 428
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Completa bibliografía, acompañada de textos críticos, que facilita la búsqueda de las líneas más importantes y novedosas de la interpretación y reinterpretación de las vanguardias literarias en estos cinco países.
Author: María C. Gaztambide
Author: María C. Gaztambide
Author: Héctor Olea Galaviz
Author: Mariola V. Alvarez
Author: Luis Camnitzer
Author: Sean Nesselrode Moncada
Author: Ariel Jiménez
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Author: Jessica Lack
Author: Daniel Balderston
Author: Hubert Pöppel