Antonin Artaud
Drawings and Portraits
$81.39
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2019
Summary
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 electr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262039987 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262039982 |
| Author: | Jacques Derrida, Paule Thévenin, Mary Ann Caws |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 191mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Jacques Derrida
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.
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