Main entry:

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, 1955- author, curator, organizer.

Title & Author:

Contesting modernity : Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975 / Mari Carmen Ramírez, Tahía Rivero ; with María C. Gaztambide, Josefina Manrique, Gabriela Rangel.

Publication:

[Houston, Texas] : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [2018]
New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
United States of America : Puritan Capital.
©2018

Description:

272 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 28, 2018 - January 21, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contesting modernity / Tahía Rivero -- Surface tensions -- The Informalist avant-garde in Venezuela / Tahía Rivero -- El Techo de la Ballena -- Art from the rearguard in 1960s Venezuela / María C. Gaztambide -- Return to the "Real" -- Elsa Gramcko -- Of things and machines : Elsa Gramcko's journey from the void to the "real" / Mari Carmen Ramírez -- Marginal strategies -- Imagen de Caracas : art as action / Gabriela Rangel -- Chronology / María C. Gaztambide and Josefina Manrique -- Historical texts -- Artists' biographies.
Text in English, translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

This fascinating exploration of Venezuelan Informalism charts the movement's history from its beginnings in the mid-1950s to its last manifestations in the 1970s. Essays by an esteemed group of scholars discuss the variety, richness, and complexity of Informalism and examine the ways in which Venezuelan artists embraced many of the abstract, gestural tendencies contemporaneously developed in Abstract Expressionism, Tachism, and Art Informel. Providing a thorough and comprehensive overview of this artistically fertile, yet underappreciated, movement, this volume highlights the diverse approaches and the wide range of media employed by Informalism's key practitioners, including Elsa Gramcko, Alberto Brandt, Francisco Hung, Daniel Gonzalez, and the collective El Techo de la Ballena. Also featured are stunning works by internationally acclaimed figures who experimented with Informalism, such as Alejandro Otero, Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Jesus Rafael Soto. Exhibition: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (26.10.2018-27.01.2019).

ISBN:

9780300236897
0300236891

Subject:

Gramcko, Elsa, 1925-1994 Exhibitions.
Gramcko, Elsa.
Gramcko, Elsa, 1925-1994
Gramcko, Elsa 1925-1994
Techo de la Ballena (Literary group) Exhibitions.
Techo de la Ballena (Literary group)
Art, Venezuelan 20th century Exhibitions.
Art informel Venezuela 20th century Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Venezuela 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Abstract Venezuela 20th century Exhibitions.
Artists Venezuela 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Art vénézuélien 20e siècle Expositions.
Artistes Venezuela 20e siècle Expositions.
Art 20e siècle.
Art, Venezuelan Exhibitions. 20th century.
Art informel Venezuela Exhibitions 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Venezuela Exhibitions 20th century.
Art, Abstract Venezuela Exhibitions 20th century.
Artists Venezuela Exhibitions 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art, Modern
Art informel
Art, Abstract
Art, Venezuelan
Artists
Kunst
Venezuela

Form/genre:

Essay
Exhibition
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
essays.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Essays
Catalogues d'exposition.
Essais.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Kervanjian, Melina, editor.
Brand, Heather, editor.
Beckwith, Anthony, translator.
Olea, Héctor, translator.
Rivero, Tahía, curator, organizer.
Gaztambide, María C., writer of added commentary.
Cabrera, Josefina Manrique, writer of added commentary.
Rangel, Gabriela, writer of added commentary.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
Colección Mercantil Arte y Cultura (Caracas, Venezuela), organizer.
United States Texas Houston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304299
Call No.: BIB 249861
Status: Available