LEADER 03151oam 22005654a 450 001 9910487551403321 005 20230621140121.0 010 $a0-8101-3742-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000005115352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5403737 035 $a(OCoLC)1039689908 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66136 035 $a(ScCtBLL)034d2c8e-9218-42fe-b6c2-378d022e8ddf 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005115352 100 $a20180424d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Unfinished Art of Theater$eAvant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil /$fSarah J. Townsend 210 1$aEvanston, Illinois :$cNorthwestern University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018. 215 $a1 online resource (313 pages) 225 0 $aPerformance works 300 $a"The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University." 311 $a0-8101-3740-2 311 $a0-8101-3741-0 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aThe avant-garde posits the possibility of total rupture with the past. This book pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the edge of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this "unfinished art"-because of its weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and Brazil, where the bourgeois stage had not yet coalesced-was at the forefront of struggles to redefine the relationship between art and social change. Drawing on archival research, Townsend reveals the importance of avant-garde projects that belie the rhetoric of rupture and immediacy: ethnographic operas, populist puppet plays, children's radio programs, a philosophical drama about the birth of a new race, and an antifascist spectacle written for a theater shut down by the police. The book argues that avant-garde art is tied to the experience of dependency, delay, and the uneven development of capitalism. 410 0$aPerformance works. 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 606 $aTheater and society$zBrazil 606 $aTheater and society$zMexico 606 $aExperimental theater$zBrazil 606 $aExperimental theater$zMexico 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics) 615 0$aTheater and society 615 0$aTheater and society 615 0$aExperimental theater 615 0$aExperimental theater 676 $a792.0972 700 $aTownsend$b Sarah J.$0871097 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910487551403321 996 $aThe Unfinished Art of Theater$91944558 997 $aUNINA