A Revolution in movement : dancers, painters, and the image of modern Mexico / K. Mitchell Snow

By:

Snow, K. Mitchell [autor]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9780813066554

Subject(s):

Contents:

Conté: An Anthropologist Orders a Beer: The Development of Mexican Nationalism -- Mexicanism Russian Style: Roberto Montenegro, Diego Rivera, and the Ballets Russes -- The Precursors of Mexicanism: Anna Pavlova and Tórtola Valencia -- The Philosopher as an Artist Writ Large: JoséVasconcelos, Muralism, and Folk Art -- Dancing a Sandunga in English: Carlos Chavez and Diego Rivera in the United States -- A Question of Technique: Carlos Merida and a Mexican School of Dance -- Competing Modernisms: Anna Sokolow and Waldeen -- Ballets without Ballerinas? JoséClemente Orozco and the Ballet de la Ciudad de México -- The Golden Age of Mexican Modern Dance: Miguel Covarrubias and the Academia de la Danza Mexicana -- Dancing beyond the Cactus Curtain: Mexican Theatrical Dance Comes of Age -- Epilogue: Mexican and Universal

Summary: "This book illuminates how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico's postrevolutionary cultural identity, tracing this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance from the 1920s to the 1960s" -- Editor

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	793(72) MIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900081300

Inclou reproducció d'una fotografia de Tortola Valencia a la pàgina 72 del fons del Centre de Documentació i Museu d'Arts Escèniques (MAE) de l'Institut del Teatre

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"This book illuminates how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico's postrevolutionary cultural identity, tracing this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance from the 1920s to the 1960s" -- Editor

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