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A revolution in movement : dancers, painters, and the image of modern Mexico
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A revolution in movement : dancers, painters, and the image of modern Mexico / K. Mitchell Snow.
ISBN
9780813066554
0813066557
9780813057576
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Physical Description
xi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Snow, K. Mitchell, A revolution in movement Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
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