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The Theater and Its Double
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A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magical relation to reality and danger,” he wrote. He fought vigorously against an encroaching conventionalism he found anathema to the very concept of theater. He sought to use theater to transcend writing, to break through the language in order to touch life.”
Since its first publication in 1938, The Theater and Its Double by the French artist and philosopher Antonin Artaud has continued to provoke, inspire, enrage, enliven, challenge, and goad any number of theatrical debates in its call for a "Theater of Cruelty." A trio of theatrical manifestos, the book is an aggressive attack on many of the most treasured beliefs of both theater and Western culture. According to Artaud, the theater's "double" is similar to its Jungian "shadow," the unacknowledged, unconscious element that completes it but is in many ways its opposite. As "culture" inexorably draws the artistic impulse into safe channels, the repressed irrational urges of theater, based on dreams, religion, and emotion, are increasingly necessary to "purge" the sickness of society. Artaud identifies language itself as one of the major cultural culprits, and his attacks on it occasionally makes his text rough going. But his challenge to restore relevance to the heart of the theatrical experience remains fundamental to the vitality of theater, and his insistence on the sensory experience of drama as opposed to the literary (and such innovative ideas as the use of unconventional "found spaces") continues to be the clarion call of the theatrical avant-garde. --John Longenbaugh
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
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A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular writer.
Artaud Anthology
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“I am the man,” wrote Artaud, “who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud’s vatic thunder still crashes above the “larval confusion” he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity. This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.
México: viaje al país de los tarahumaras
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Artaud escribió estas páginas inflamado por una pasión irreductible; su testimonio está sellado por la peculiar mirada trágica que lo caracterizó y por los relámpagos de una conciencia singularmente dotada para explicarse, y hacernos ver el mundo en términos poéticos.
50 Drawings to Murder Magic (SB-The French List)
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Antonin Artaud was a poet, theorist, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, and one of the 20th century’s most important theoreticians of drama. His theory of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ has influenced playwrights as diverse as Beckett, Genet, Albee and Gelber.
Magic was always a central concept for Artaud, and in nearly all his writing it is given the most positive force, as something capable of healing the rift between words and things, culture and life. But during his nine years of incarceration in mental asylums, magic seemed to lose its illuminating transformative power and to become demonic and persecutory. Artaud entered the realm of spectres and vampires which he believed were sucking the vitality from his mind and body.
Artaud later filled twelve little exercise books with an account of his struggles to escape this physical, psychological and artistic hell. The first eleven books are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches of totemic figures, pierced bodies and enigmatic machines. Two months before his death, he took a twelfth exercise book and wrote a remarkable, incantatory text, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic. It was the last thing he wrote.
Artaud Antonin News
I Killed My Mother - Variety
Variety, CA - May 18, 2009
I Killed My MotherThere's good stuff here, and if Dolan continues as a helmer, he'll probably look back in 10 years and groan at some of the obvious novice elements, including the Antonin Artaud/Arthur Rimbaud "homage." Occasional inserts of fantasy sequences,
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Coppola revisits early days with Latin triumph
Reuters - May 18, 2009
Coppola admits to -- no, he boasts of -- his influences here from Elia Kazan's "On the Waterfront" and "the mysterious work of Antonioni" to Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill and, as a model for his angry young poet, Antonin Artaud.
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The life aquatic - San Francisco Bay Guardian
San Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - Feb 11, 874
The life aquaticStudying mathematics and biology at the Sorbonne, Painlevé made a vertiginous departure toward cinema after meeting surrealist artists Antonin Artaud, Jean Vigo, and Luis Buñuel. Calling his work "neo-zoological drama", Painlevé began assembling
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Cannes 2009 Film And Music For The Earthquake Victims In Italy - EIN News (press release)
EIN News (press release), Netherlands - May 12, 2009
Cannes 2009 Film And Music For The Earthquake Victims In ItalyViani and Pimenta have collaborated before creating both film and music according to the principles of independent artwork as established by the French dramaturge Antonin Artaud in the beginning of the twenty-century and followed by John Cage,
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Presentan en la UJAT “Forastero en la tierra” - TabascoHoy.com
TabascoHoy.com, Mexico - May 25, 2009
Presentan en la UJAT “Forastero en la tierra” el Casa de América en España y la medalla Centenario Pablo Neruda, que otorga el gobierno de Chile. Entre los poetas que ha traducido se puede mencionar a Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, André Gide, Antonin Artaud y Georg Trakl, entre otros.
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