Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948)
View through CrossRef
Antonin Artaud was a French writer and theatre-maker of the early twentieth century. His work includes manifestos, correspondence, poetry, criticism, drama, film acting, and theatre directing. His impassioned writing combines impulses of historical avant-garde movements and the apocalyptic atmosphere of the interwar era. His legacy in the world of arts and letters is that of a visionary: his creative output, largely unedited, is scattered across genres but unified by a set of themes, obsessions, and impulses, such as the split between ‘real’ life and social life and the need for violence to regenerate civilization.
Born in Marseilles in 1896, Artaud spent much of the First World War in a sanatorium, where he developed a life-long addiction to opiates. He moved to Paris in 1923, working in theatre there for the next thirteen years with major experimental directors including Georges Pitoëff and Charles Dullin and acting in films directed by Carl Dreyer, Abel Gance, and Fritz Lang.
Suffering setbacks in his financial and artistic life, he travelled to Mexico in 1936 to participate in the peyote rituals of the Tarahumara Indians. His mental health, never strong, deteriorated quickly around this time. He spent from 1937 to 1946 in asylums. When he was transferred to a clinic near Paris in 1946, he was greeted with enthusiasm by artists who had read his work while he was confined.
Title: Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948)
Description:
Antonin Artaud was a French writer and theatre-maker of the early twentieth century.
His work includes manifestos, correspondence, poetry, criticism, drama, film acting, and theatre directing.
His impassioned writing combines impulses of historical avant-garde movements and the apocalyptic atmosphere of the interwar era.
His legacy in the world of arts and letters is that of a visionary: his creative output, largely unedited, is scattered across genres but unified by a set of themes, obsessions, and impulses, such as the split between ‘real’ life and social life and the need for violence to regenerate civilization.
Born in Marseilles in 1896, Artaud spent much of the First World War in a sanatorium, where he developed a life-long addiction to opiates.
He moved to Paris in 1923, working in theatre there for the next thirteen years with major experimental directors including Georges Pitoëff and Charles Dullin and acting in films directed by Carl Dreyer, Abel Gance, and Fritz Lang.
Suffering setbacks in his financial and artistic life, he travelled to Mexico in 1936 to participate in the peyote rituals of the Tarahumara Indians.
His mental health, never strong, deteriorated quickly around this time.
He spent from 1937 to 1946 in asylums.
When he was transferred to a clinic near Paris in 1946, he was greeted with enthusiasm by artists who had read his work while he was confined.
Related Results
Aux confins du surréalisme, Antonin Artaud…
Aux confins du surréalisme, Antonin Artaud…
La publication en septembre 1924 des lettres qu’ont échangées Antonin Artaud et Jacques Rivière, sous le titre Une Correspondance, est saluée par André Breton. Ces lettres proposen...
L’étude sur le sens d’en finir avec les chefs-oeuvre chez Antonin Artaud
L’étude sur le sens d’en finir avec les chefs-oeuvre chez Antonin Artaud
Dans Le Théâtre et son Double, il y a un chapitre intitulé «En finir avec les chefs-d'œuvre». Artaud explique ici le phénomène des chefs-d'œuvre qui, si leur valeur s'avère utile u...
L’étude sur le sens d’en finir avec les chefs-oeuvre chez Antonin Artaud
L’étude sur le sens d’en finir avec les chefs-oeuvre chez Antonin Artaud
Dans Le Théâtre et son Double, il y a un chapitre intitulé «En finir avec les chefs-d'œuvre». Artaud explique ici le phénomène des chefs-d'œuvre qui, si leur valeur s'avère utile u...
Van Gogh, 1947
Van Gogh, 1947
Abstract
The 1947 Vincent Van Gogh retrospective held at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, may seem to be a relatively obscure moment in the history of exhibitions. Y...
Peregrinações Artaudianas / Pérégrinations Artaudiennes
Peregrinações Artaudianas / Pérégrinations Artaudiennes
Este texto, bilíngue (em francês e em português), foi escrito especialmente para este dossiê por Théophile Choquet, membro ativo da Associação Rodez - Antonin Artaud. Aqui ele abor...
Tell Me When It Hurts: the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ Season, Thirty Years On
Tell Me When It Hurts: the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ Season, Thirty Years On
The piece which follows was written in 1964 after seeing the Theatre of Cruelty season, directed by Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz at the then recently opened LAMDA Theatre in We...
The Radical Negativity and Paradoxical Performativity of Postmodern Iconoclasm: Marcel Duchamp and Antonin Artaud
The Radical Negativity and Paradoxical Performativity of Postmodern Iconoclasm: Marcel Duchamp and Antonin Artaud
‘Iconoclasm grew from the destruction of religious images and opposition to the religious use of images to, literally, the destruction of, and opposition to, any images or works of...
El cuerpo que ríe: dinámicas de la comicidad teatral
El cuerpo que ríe: dinámicas de la comicidad teatral
En “El teatro y la peste”, Antonin Artaud expuso que según San Agustín la acción destructora de la peste semeja la del teatro: la primera lleva hasta la muerte sin acabar con los ó...
Recent Results
Franz von Stuck und Beethoven
Franz von Stuck und Beethoven
Silke Bettermann, Exhibitions, 2013, Carus...