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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Townsend, Sarah J., author. The Unfinished Art of Theater Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / Sarah J. Townsend. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018. ©2018. 1 online resource (313 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Performance works "The Unfinished Art of Theater began as a dissertation written at New York University." 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. Description based on print version record. 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. CC BY-NC-ND Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Theater and society Brazil. Theater and society Mexico. Experimental theater Brazil. Experimental theater Mexico. Electronic books. 0-8101-3740-2 0-8101-3741-0 Performance works. |
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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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