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Antonin Artaud - Drawings and Portraits (Hardcover)
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Antonin Artaud - Drawings and Portraits (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late
visual work, all reproduced in color. Antonin Artaud
(1896-1948)-stage and film actor, director, writer, and visual
artist-was a man of rage and genius. Expelled from the Surrealist
movement for his refusal to renounce the theatre, he founded the
Theater of Cruelty and wrote The Theater and Its Double, one of the
key twentieth-century texts on the topic. Artaud spent nine years
at the end of his life in asylums, undergoing electroshock
treatments. Released to the care of his friends in 1946, he began
to draw again.This book presents drawings and portraits from this
late resurgence, all in color. Accompanying the images are texts by
by Artaud's longtime friend and editor Paule Thevenin and the
philosopher Jacques Derrida. "We won't be describing any
paintings," Derrida warns the reader. Derrida struggles with
Artaud's peculiar language, punctuating his text with agitated
footnotes and asides (asking at one point, "How will they translate
this?"). Thevenin offers a more straightforward biographical and
historical account. (It was on the walls of her apartment that
Derrida first saw Artaud's paintings and drawings.) These two texts
were previously published by the MIT Press in The Secret Art of
Antonin Artaud without the artwork that is their subject. This book
brings together art and text for the first time in English.
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