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Author Snow, K. Mitchell, author.

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

Publication Info. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : illustrations
text file
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
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.
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Subject Modern dance -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century.
Modern dance.
Mexico.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Dance -- Mexico -- History.
Dance.
Painting, Mexican -- History.
Dancers -- Mexico -- History.
Painting, Mexican.
Painters -- Mexico -- History.
Dancers.
Nationalism -- Mexico -- History.
Nationalism.
Painters.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Snow, K. Mitchell. A revolution in movement Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020. 9780813066554 (DLC) 2020015412
ISBN 9780813057576 electronic book
0813057574 electronic book
9780813066554 hardcover
0813066557
9780813066554