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

by Sarah J. Townsend

A certain idea of the avant-garde posits the possibility of a total rupture with the past. The Unfinished Art of Theater pulls back on this futuristic impulse by showing how theater became a key site for artists on the semiperiphery of capitalism to reconfigure the role of the aesthetic between 1917 and 1934. The book argues that this "unfinished art"--precisely because of its historic weakness as a representative institution in Mexico and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810137410
• ISBN13: 9780810137417
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"