| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 08, 2020) |
| Subject |
Modern dance -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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Dance -- Mexico -- History
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Painting, Mexican -- History
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Dancers -- Mexico -- History
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Painters -- Mexico -- History
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Nationalism -- Mexico -- History
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ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Dance
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Dancers
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Modern dance
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Nationalism
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Painters
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Painting, Mexican
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020015413 |
| ISBN |
9780813057576 |
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0813057574 |
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0813066557 |
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9780813066554 |
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