Re-generación 1958: Intelectuales, arte y política en Venezuela is my doctoral project mongraph. It proposes a historiographic reading of the Venezuelan cultural field in the 1960s by analyzing discourses and practices of two groups of intellectuals: Tabla Redonda and El Techo de la Ballena. Although the initial position of these cultural actors was marginal, they aspired to an institutional appointment or recognition. However, claiming to be on the margins of the cultural field was their strategy of self-legitimization as they sought cultural renovation, both in aesthetic and institutional matters. They took the form of an artistic avant-garde and even if they advocated different programs, they have been grouped under the name of "cultural left", an umbrella that clearly describes the ideological panorama back at the time. This research is based on a series of questions about the transformation of their discourse throughout the decade aiming to understand how the political and social was translated into cultural practices. The particularity of the Venezuelan political context, with a democracy that emerged strengthened at the end of the 1960s, did not seem to be an analogous scenario to other Latin American countries, where the radicalization of intellectual commitment occurred precisely in the 1970s. There was indeed a strong division between critical intellectuals and revolutionary intellectuals, albeit only in its discursive aspect, since the revolutionary intellectual did not see his life threatened after 1968. The book argues the thesis of a de-radicalization by institutional action while analyzing these minor but significant actors of the cultural field and their cultural production, in order to better understand the past of today's devastated country.