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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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.