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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Townsend, Sarah J., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press 2018.
Colección:Performance works.
Materias:
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Theater and society > Brazil.
Theater and society > Mexico.
Experimental theater > Brazil.
Experimental theater > Mexico.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009624653106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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