Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela

Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela (1928–1978)

August 29, 2023–January 7, 2024 | Getty Center

Alfredo Boulton was one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century in Latin America and a seminal photographer of the modern period. Through his body of work, Boulton generated a new cultural definition of Venezuela. This exhibition explores Boulton’s photography, his relationships with modern artists, and his influence on the formalization of art history in his country.

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Latin American Art and Latinx Art History Initiative

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Malvina Hoffman papers, 1885–1984, undated

The Malvina Hoffman papers provide comprehensive documentation of the American sculptor’s life and her career as a sculptor and writer. The archive, which includes correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials, as well as photographs and negatives, motion picture films, sketchbooks, and drawings provides insight into the artist output of a successful female artist working in the first half of the twentieth century.
 

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Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928–1978

Edited by Idurre Alonso
 

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 on the imagery of the heroes of his country’s independence. Yet his work is shockingly underrecognized outside of his native land. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a commanding, original perspective on his contributions to the formation of a distinctive modernity at home and beyond.

This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center from August 29, 2023, to January 21, 2024.

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