Artaud the Moma

Jacques Derrida, Kaira M. Cabañas, Peggy Kamuf

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English

Columbia University Press
19 September 2017

Individual artists, art monographs; Theatre: individual actors & directors; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism

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

"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 Mômo, 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."

By: Jacques Derrida
Afterword by: Kaira M. Cabañas
Translated by: Peggy Kamuf
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780231181662
ISBN 10: 0231181663
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 19 September 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Artaud the Moma Afterword, by Kaira M. Cabañas Notes Acknowledgments, by Kaira M. Cabañas

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was one of the twentieth century's most prolific and influential philosophers. He was director at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Kaira M. Cabanas is associate professor of global modern and contemporary art history at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Peggy Kamuf is Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California.

Reviews for Artaud the Moma

One of Derrida's most extraordinarily deep and and virtuosic texts, and one of the best ever written about Artaud.--Denis Hollier, New York University