Cover; El Techo de la Ballena; Title; Copyright; Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF PLATES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; 1. The Site of Paradise; 2. The Fluidity of Venezuelan Informalism; 3. The Contingency of the Whale; 4. The Authority of Kitsch; 5. Dead Matter for an Enlivened Practice; Coda; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX