The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil /

The avant-garde posits the possibility of total rupture with the past. This book pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the edge of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this "unfini...

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Main Author:	Townsend, Sarah J. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Theater and society. Experimental theater. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) PERFORMING ARTS > General. Theâtre et societe > Mexique. Theâtre et societe > Bresil. Experimental theater > Mexico. Experimental theater > Brazil. Theater and society > Mexico. Theater and society > Brazil. Mexico. Brazil. Electronic books.
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