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In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the...

This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This volume maps the trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chavez's four presidential terms (1999-2013) in twenty-first century Venezuela. Assesses the manifold impacts that the politics of chavismo had on the cultural sphere Maps key shifts and trends in cultural policies and political cultures that accompanied Chavez's four presidential terms, situating these in the regional context of "Pink Tide" politics An ambitious, interdisciplinary volume offering a range of perspectives, from broad overviews of cultural and media policy, to close...