The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil

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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Main Author: Townsend, Sarah (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Northwestern University Press 2018
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