The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / / Sarah J. Townsend
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Evanston, Illinois : , : Northwestern University Press, , 2018 |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 792.0972 |
| Soggetto topico: | Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
| Theater and society - Brazil | |
| Theater and society - Mexico | |
| Experimental theater - Brazil | |
| Experimental theater - Mexico | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | "The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University." |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Unfinished Art of Theater |
| ISBN: | 0-8101-3742-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910487551403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Performance works.