Antonin Artaud - Collected Works (6 books)
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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 creative abilities were developed, in part, as a means of therapy during the artist's many hospitalizations for mental illness. While being treated in a hospital by Edouard Toulouse, Artaud was encouraged to express himself in poetry. Artaud's life and his work, despite the efforts of psychotherapy, reflected his mental afflictions and were further complicated by his dependence on narcotics.
In the 1920s, Artaud associated with Surrealist writers, artists, and experimental theatre groups in Paris. When political differences resulted in his break from the Surrealists, he founded the Theatre Alfred Jarry with Roger Vitrac and Robert Aron. Artaud, especially, was disdainful of "bourgeois" classical theatre, panning the ordered plot and scripted language his contemporaries typically employed to convey ideas. His best-known work, THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE (1938), contained the two manifestos of the "Theatre of Cruelty" which calls for a primitive ceremonial communion between actor and audience in a magic exorcism; gestures, sounds, unusual scenery, and lighting combine to form a language, superior to words, that can be used to subvert thought and logic and to shock the spectator into seeing the baseness of his world.
Artaud's own works, less important than his theories, were failures. THE CENCI (1935), a play about a man who rapes his own daughter and is then murdered by men the girl hires to eliminate him, was an experiment too bold for its time and a commercial failure. His vision, however, was a major influence on the Absurd theatre of Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, and others and on the entire movement away from the dominant role of language and rationalism in contemporary theatre.
The following books are in PDF format:
* Artaud Anthology (City Lights, 1965). Edited by Jack Hirschman.
* Collected Works of Antonin Artaud (Calder & Boyars, 1968-1974). 4 volumes. Translated by Victor Corti (vols. 1-2, 4) and Alastair Hamilton (vol. 3).
* Theater and Its Double, The (Grove, 1958). Translated by Mary Caroline Richards.
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Artaud, Antonin Artaud Anthology [ed. Hirschman]- Artaud, Antonin - Artaud Anthology (City Lights, 1965).jpg (127.1 KB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Artaud Anthology (City Lights, 1965).pdf (8.4 MB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 1 (Calder & Boyars, 1968).jpg (143.4 KB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 1 (Calder & Boyars, 1968).pdf (4.0 MB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 2 (Calder & Boyars, 1971).jpg (99.6 KB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 2 (Calder & Boyars, 1971).pdf (6.0 MB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 3 (Calder & Boyars, 1972).jpg (110.5 KB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 3 (Calder & Boyars, 1972).pdf (5.5 MB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 4 (Calder, 1999).jpg (31.1 KB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Collected Works, Vol. 4 (Calder, 1999).pdf (2.2 MB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Theater and Its Double (Grove, 1958).jpg (81.1 KB)
- Artaud, Antonin - Theater and Its Double (Grove, 1958).pdf (3.0 MB)
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