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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2018.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Townsend, Sarah J., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Unfinished Art of Theater : |b Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / |c Sarah J. Townsend. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Evanston, Illinois : |b Northwestern University Press, |c 2018. | |
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| 500 | |a "The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University." | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends. | |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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