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Alfredo Boulton : looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978 / edited by Idurre Alonso ; [contributors, Idurre Alonso, Ariel Jiménez, José Antonio Navarrete [and seven others]].

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Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2023]

Boulton, Alfredo.

Photography, Artistic -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, Venezuelan -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, Venezuelan -- 20th century.

9781606068199 (hardcover) :

1606068199 (hardcover)

xii, 275 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm.

Introduction / Idurre Alonso -- Alfredo Boulton: The Image as Guiding Principle / Ariel Jiménez -- Alfredo Boulton, the Photographer-Artist: His Path to International Legitimization / José 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 -- Los Disidentes and the Spectral Trace of Aimée 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 Pérez -- Alfredo Boulton and the Promotion of Venezuelan Art in the United States / Idurre Alonso -- Alfredo Boulton and Venezuela's First Spanish Foundation / Mónica Domínguez Torres -- The Face of a Nation: Alfredo Boulton's Bolívar / Natalia Majluf -- Alfredo Boulton and Venezuelan Colonial Art History / Janeth Rodríguez Nóbrega -- Boulton and the Appreciation of the Pre-Hispanic World in Venezuela / Alessandra Caputo Jaffe.

"Alfredo Boulton (1908-1995) is considered one of the most important champions of modern art in Venezuela and a key intellectual of twentieth-century modernism. He was a pioneer of modern photography, an art critic, a researcher and historian of Venezuelan art, a friend to many of the great artists and architects of the twentieth century, and an expert of the imagery of the heroes of his country's independence. Yet Boulton is shockingly underrecognized outside of his native land. The few exhibitions related to his work have focused exclusively on his photographic production; never has there been a project that looks at the full range of Boulton's efforts, foregrounding his influence on the shaping of Venezuelan art. This volume addresses these lacunae by analyzing Boulton's groundbreaking photographic practice, his central role in the construction of a modern national artistic canon, and his influence in formalizing and developing art history and criticism in Venezuela. Based on the extensive materials held in Boulton's archive at the Getty Research Institute, Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978 brings together essays by leading scholars in the field to offer a commanding, original perspective on Boulton's contributions to the formation of a distinctive modernity at home and beyond." -- Back cover

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