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Artaud the Moma (Paperback): Jacques Derrida

Artaud the Moma (Paperback)

Jacques Derrida; Afterword by Kaira M. Cabanas; Translated by Peggy Kamuf

Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Momo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida ...will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings." For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida-and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist.

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Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Release date: September 2017
Authors: Jacques Derrida
Afterword by: Kaira M. Cabanas
Translators: Peggy Kamuf
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18167-9
Languages: English
Subtitles: French
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Postmodernism > Structuralism, deconstruction, post-structuralism
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-231-18167-1
Barcode: 9780231181679

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