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 Thévenin 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?”). Thévenin 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.

Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits (Mit Press)

Arts & Photography

DERRIDA, JACQUES

Thévenin, Paule

Individual Artists

The MIT Press

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)—stage and film actor, director, writer, drug addict, and visual artist—was a man of rage and genius. The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud is the first English translation of two famous texts on his drawings and portraits. In one, Jacques Derrida examines the works that he first saw on the walls of Paule Thévenin's apartment. His text, as frenzied as Artaud's, struggles with Artaud's peculiar language and is punctuated by footnotes and asides that reflect this strain ("How will they translate this?"). The more straightforward text of Paule Thévenin describes the history of Artaud's drawings and portraits.

The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

Antonin Artaud: Dessins et portraits

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Gallimard]

Antonin Artaud: Zeichnungen und Portraits

Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm

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