Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits by Thevenin, Paule

Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits

Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late visual work, all reproduced in color.Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)--stage and...
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Author: Paule Thevenin
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Language: English
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Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits by Thevenin, Paule

Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits

€74,28

Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits

€74,28
Author: Paule Thevenin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 Th venin 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?"). Th venin 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.



Author: Paule Thevenin, Jacques Derrida
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780262039987

About the Author
Paule Thévenin (1918-1993) knew Antonin Artaud well and edited many his complete writings for the French publisher Éditions Gallimard.

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), an enormously influential philosopher, theoretician, critic, and deconstructionist, is the author of Of Grammatology, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond, Aporias, and many other books.

Mary Ann Caws, an art historian, literary critic, and translator, is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is the author, editor, or translator of more than forty books in the fields of poetry and the avant-garde.


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