Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415282551 ISBN 13: 9780415282550

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Antonin Artaud This resource collects critical writing on Artaud's life and work. Featuring contributions from critics such as Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, this volume challenges traditional perceptions of Artaud and explores the the relationship between his mental illness, drug addiction and creativity. Full description

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Synopsis:

Antonin Artaud was one of the most brilliant and baffling voices of the twentieth century. Working across a multitude of disciplines, his genre-defying creative output was immense. Best known for his concept of a 'theatre of cruelty', his legacy has been to re-define the possibilities of live performance. This resource collects, for the first time, some of the best critical writing on his life and work. Featuring contributions from critics such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo Bersani and Susan Sontag, Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader: *challenges traditional perceptions of Artaud *explores the circumstances of his life and work, including the relationship between his mental illness, drug addiction and creativity *reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of Artaud's work by including material drawn from a wide range of sources on a number of subjects *divides the material into five useful sections - biography, theatre, writing, film and radio and fine arts. This indispensable collection is essential reading for scholars and students working across a variety of arts disciplines, including theatre, film, philosophy, literature and fine art.

Its multi-disciplinary nature and the length of the extracts make it suitable for academics and post-graduates as well as upper-level undergraduates. Introduction. On Antonin Artaud: A Beginner's Guide to Cruelty BPart 1. On Biography: Madness and Language Andre Breton, Andre Parinaud, Georges Bataille, Sylvere Lotringer from an interview with Ja

About the Author:

Edward Scheer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Theatre, Film and Dance at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the editor of 100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud (2000) and is Secretary of the Board of Directors of The Performance Space in Sydney, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415282551
• ISBN 13: 9780415282550
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Scheer Edward