The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil /
Townsend, Sarah J.,
The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / Sarah J. Townsend. - 1 online resource (312 pages). - Performance works . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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.
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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 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.
9780810137424
Theater and society.
Experimental theater.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
PERFORMING ARTS--General.
Theâtre et societe--Mexique.
Theâtre et societe--Bresil.
Experimental theater--Mexico.
Experimental theater--Brazil.
Theater and society--Mexico.
Theater and society--Brazil.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Mexico.
Brazil.
Electronic books.
The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / Sarah J. Townsend. - 1 online resource (312 pages). - Performance works . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
"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.
Open Access
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.
9780810137424
Theater and society.
Experimental theater.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
PERFORMING ARTS--General.
Theâtre et societe--Mexique.
Theâtre et societe--Bresil.
Experimental theater--Mexico.
Experimental theater--Brazil.
Theater and society--Mexico.
Theater and society--Brazil.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Mexico.
Brazil.
Electronic books.