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 "unfinished...

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第一著者: Townsend, Sarah J. (著者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
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要約: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 "unfinished art"-because of its weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not yet coalesced-was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on archival research, Townsend reveals the importance of avant-garde projects that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy: ethnographic operas, populist puppet plays, children's radio programs, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for a theater shut down by the police. The book argues that avant-garde art is tied to the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism.
記述事項:"The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University."
物理的記述:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9780810137424
アクセス:Open Access