María C. Gaztambide
María C. Gaztambide is director and chief curator of Public Art of the University of Houston System. She previously served as the associate director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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El Techo de la Ballena
Retro-Modernity in Venezuela
University of Florida Press
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.
- Copyright year: 2019
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