Antonin Artaud

Revolutionary Messages

Übersetzer: White, Joel

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Produktbeschreibung

Published here in its entirety in English, Artaud's Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud's political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936. Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and its Double, it captures a crucial point in Artaud's life shortly before he was admitted to a mental asylum in which he was to spend a significant part of his later life. Revolutionary Messages contains conferences that Artaud gave at the University of Mexico, articles from the daily Mexican newspaper El Nacional Revolucionario and a study of three seminal artists of the time influenced by or from Mexico: Franz Hals, Ortiz Monasterio and Maria Izquierdo. Not only will you gain crucial insight into Artaud's time in Mexico and his vision of a "total revolution," which he places in distinction to Marxist and Surrealist conceptions of revolution, but you will deepen your understanding of the philosophical roots of his theatrical project, which ultimately shaped modern theatre and dance. The publication includes an introduction by the translator, Joel White, and a preface by Professor of European Philosophy, Howard Caygill.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350179011
• ISBN-10: 1350179019
• Artikelnr.: 61330412

Autorenporträt

Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948) was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde. Artaud's most significant contribution to drama theory is his "theater of cruelty" and, although it was not widely embraced in practice, the ideas have been, and continue to be, the subject of many essays on modern theater.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Revolution I.Three Conferences given at the
University of Mexico Surrealism and Revolution Humanity against Fate The
Theatre and its Gods II.Mexico Post-war Parisian Theater Open Letter to the
State Governors of Mexico Universal Bases of Culture First Contact with the
Mexican Revolution A Medea without Fire Emerging French Painting and
Tradition French Theater Searches its Myth Why I came to Mexico The Eternal
Culture of Mexico The False Superiority of the Elite Eternal Secrets of
Culture The occult Forces of Mexico The Social Anarchy of Art I Came to
Mexico to Flee European Civilisation III.Franz Hals - Ortiz Monasterio -
Maria Izquierdo Franz Hals A Technician of Stone: Monasterio The paintings
of Maria Izquierdo Maria Izquierdo Two Notes Mexico and the Primitive
Spirit: Maria Izquierdo Notes Bibliography Index