The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / / Sarah J. Townsend.

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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Place / Publishing House:Evanston, Illinois : : Northwestern University Press,, 2018.
©2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Performance works.
Physical Description:1 online resource (313 pages).
Notes:"The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University."
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