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Autore |
Townsend Sarah J. |
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Titolo |
The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / / Sarah J. Townsend |
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Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
Theater and society - Brazil |
Theater and society - Mexico |
Experimental theater - Brazil |
Experimental theater - Mexico |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University." |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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