Antonin Artaud

Drawings and Portraits

Paule Thévenin, Jacques Derrida, Mary Ann Caws

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English

MIT Press
03 September 2019

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Drawing & drawings; Individual artists, art monographs; Theatre: individual actors & directors

Series: The MIT Press

"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."

By: Paule Thévenin, Jacques Derrida
Translated by: Mary Ann Caws
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9780262039987
ISBN 10: 0262039982
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paule Thevenin (1918-1993) knew Antonin Artaud well and edited many his complete writings for the French publisher ditions 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.