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

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Snow, K. Mitchell
Published
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2020]
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : illustrations
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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
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"--
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9780813057576 electronic book
0813057574 electronic book
9780813066554 hardcover
0813066557
9780813066554
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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