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| ANTONIA MERCÉ, “LA ARGENTINA” |
ANTONIA MERCÉ
Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928.
“LA ARGENTINA”
Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde
Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum
Wesleyan University Press
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND HANOVER AND LONDON
Wesleyan University Press
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755
© 2000 by Ninotchka Bennahum
All rights reserved
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The publisher and author gratefully acknowledge the support of the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education and Culture and the United States’ Universities in the publication of this book, and thank the Spanish Ministry of Culture for the iconographic material used in the color section.
“Argentina” in Tango Andalou.
| For my mother and father, sister and brother, and in memory of my uncle Michael Bennahumand of all four of my extraordinary grandparents, Midge Bennahum, Theodore Bennahum, Mary Berry Chazin, and Maurice Chazin |
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Frontispiece: Argentina posing in Paris for photographer Madame d’Ora, 1928 | ii |
| A young Argentina posing in Spanish dress, 1920s, Paris | 2 |
| Argentina and Les Ballets Espagnols in Scene 1 from Triana, 1929 | 5 |
| Argentina in a solo performance of La Corrida, 1936 | 6 |
| Scene 1 from the ballet Juerga, 1929 | 7 |
| Argentina on tour in Holland, 1935, press conference | 9 |
| Argentina in a solo performance of Tango Andalou, 1935 | 10 |
| Argentina at a dance festival in Manila | 11 |
| Argentina on her third world tour to Asia, 1930 | 13 |
| Argentina visiting the sphinx in Egypt, 1934 | 14 |
| Argentina in the Excelsior Restaurant with the Spanish literary vanguard, 1928 | 21 |
| In costume for Tango Andalou, Madrid, 1931 | 22 |
| Caricature of Argentina in La Gitane | 23 |
| The boarding house where Argentina was born | 26 |
| Argentina posing in costume for Suite Andaluza, 1935 | 27 |
| Argentina with the castanet maestra Orfilia Rico, 1915 |