"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978, on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from 20 August 2023 to 21 January 2024." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Idurre Alonso -- Part 1. Boulton the Photographer -- Alfredo Boulton: The Image as Guiding Principle / Ariel Jimenez -- Alfredo Boulton, the Photographer-Artist: His Path to International Legitimization / Jose Antonio Navarrete -- A Ritual of Persuasion: Photographic Language and Technical Elements in the Work of Alfredo Boulton / Sofia Vollmer Maduro -- A Country That Resembles You: Alfredo Boulton and Photography / Idurre Alonso -- Plates -- Part 2. Boulton and Modern Art -- Los Disidentes and the Spectral Trace of Aimee Battistini in the Alfredo Boulton Archive / Gabriela Rangel -- A House as the Portrait of a Nation: Alfredo Boulton and Pampatar, 1952-54 / Jorge Francisco Rivas Perez -- Alfredo Boulton and the Promotion of Venezuelan Art in the United States / Idurre Alonso -- Plates -- Part 3. Boulton the Art Historian -- Alfredo Boulton and Venezuela's First Spanish Foundation / Monica Dominguez Torres -- The Face of a Nation: Alfredo Boulton's Bolivar / Natalia Majluf -- Alfredo Boulton and Venezuelan Colonial Art History / Janeth Rodriguez Nobrega -- Boulton and the Appreciation of the Pre-Hispanic World in Venezuela / Alessandra Caputo Jaffe -- Plates.
Summary:
"This lavishly illustrated volume examines the work of the Venezuelan photographer and art historian Alfredo Boulton, one of the main intellectuals of Latin American modernity"-- Provided by publisher.
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