Antonin Artaud - Drawings and Portraits

Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits by Paule Thevenin and Jacques Derrida/ ISBN 9780262039987 / 256-page hardback art book, 7.8 x 9.75 inches, published by the MIT Press / new and sealed copies with hint of wear from inbound shipping *** 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