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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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Autor principal: Townsend, Sarah J. (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Matèries:
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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Taula de continguts:
  • 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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