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The urgent need to compile primary-sourced information from the region has shaped several editorial initiatives dedicated to preserving firsthand accounts from leading artists and intellectuals, including the bilingual Conversaciones/Conversations series that launched in 2010.
Diario de Auguste Morisot, 1886–1887
In his diary, the French artist and draughtsman Auguste Morisot relates the story of his expedition, along with the French explorer Jean Chaffanjon, to the sources of the Orinoco River in 1886.
Paralelos
Catalogue that accompanied the exhibition "Paralelos: Arte brasileira da segunda metade e do século XX em contexto."
Misal Rico de Cisneros
This publication is an analysis of the Misal Rico de Cisneros, the Mass Book of the high altar at the Catedral de Toledo, which is currently kept in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
La vida cotidiana en Venezuela durante el Período Hispánico
An exploration of the quotidian existence of colonial Venezuela, highlighting the intricacies of the daily life of a group of men and women who labored to create the cultural and economic roots of modern Venezuela.
William H. Phelps en la memoria de su nieto John Phelps
John Phelps reconstructs the life of his grandfather, William H. Phelps, preserving the legacy of the “instructive life” of a successful businessman, father, outstanding scientist, and exemplary Venezuelan citizen.
Geometric Abstraction
Catalogue that accompanied the exhibition "Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art From the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection."
Orinoco: al encuentro de los indígenas de la Amazonia venezolana
This catalogue accompanied an exhibition in Biarritz, France in 2001.
Toward 20th-Century Venezuelan Art
In this text, Luis Pérez-Oramas explores some of the processes through which Venezuelan visual arts have approached modernity.
Ceci n'est pas un satellite
This notebook accompanied a selection of contemporary artworks from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros that were exhibited in the DirecTV Offices in Caracas, Venezuela.
La tentación de la pureza
In this essay, Ariel Jiménez reflects about the aspiration for purity that has characterized some of the most important works of Latin American and Venezuelan art of the twentieth century.