Who was Antonin Artaud?
Elizabeth Kommit
far I know the following:
1. Bauhaus wrote a song about him which refers to asylums but is
otherwise hard to make sense of.
2. The "Anarchist Cookbook", in its section on LSD, mentions him as
being possibly the "great-grandaddy to the whole psychedelic community"
by being an early experimenter, and it mentions that he went insane.
There also supposedly exists a title _The Artaud Anthology_.
3. There is a theatre in SF named Artaud.
Can anyone contribute to this?
Thanks,
Ben Discoe
daniel bauman
Antonin Artaud is another in a long line of insane spanish surrealists.
I believe he was a film star of sorts and may have done some directing.
He invented a genre of theater called "theater of cruelity". Check out
a book he wrote called "Theater and its double". Most people are still not
ready for the type of multimedia that he advocated. I know that there is
more out there about him, but that is all I can dreg up from the memory
banks. There is also a reference to him in "Henry and June"
Imagine Durrenmatt's "The Visit" done in theater of cruelity style.....
oh the joy.....
But, I stray. This thread really belongs on the theater newsgroups.
try posting there if you want more info.
dan bauman
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: In article <2g736n$n...@crl.crl.com>, Elizabeth Kommit <ch...@crl.com> wrote:
: >I'm trying to find out about a famous person called Antonin Artaud. So
: >far I know the following:
[...]
: > 3. There is a theatre in SF named Artaud.
: >
: Antonin Artaud is another in a long line of insane spanish surrealists.
: I believe he was a film star of sorts and may have done some directing.
: He invented a genre of theater called "theater of cruelity". Check out
: a book he wrote called "Theater and its double". Most people are still not
: ready for the type of multimedia that he advocated. I know that there is
: more out there about him, but that is all I can dreg up from the memory
: banks. There is also a reference to him in "Henry and June"
: Imagine Durrenmatt's "The Visit" done in theater of cruelity style.....
: oh the joy.....
Shades of Bunuel and Arabal ...
I remember a Jean-Louis Bunuel playing a part in "Henry and June" ...
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Jonathan Beasley Murray
4. Friend of the surrealists--esp. Andre Breton--but they got fed up with
him because he was too wild and crazy
5. Formulated the "theatre of cruelty". I'm not entirely sure what this was.
6. Played Marat in a famous film
7. Went mad for a long time
8. There is an excellent collection of his writings (_Artaud Anthology_, I
think) including "Van Gogh, suicided by society" and various paeans to the
death of God.
9. Big influence now on avantgarde playwrights and philosophers.
10. I don't think he is any more connected with drugs than any other writer
of the time.
Jon
Pete Dussin
He was a tortured artist dude, an actor. He was in love with Anais Nin.
You can read her impressions of him in volume one (the 1931-34?) of her
diary. It covers the same time period as _Henry_&_June, with all the
naught bits taken out. The stuff above is correct, too. I don't know where
to find his original stuff...
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Brent Buescher
>10. I don't think he is any more connected with drugs than any other writer
>of the time.
>Jon
He was also heavily into the occult and theosophy.
He traveled to central America apparently mostly to take mushrooms
and cactus and became convinced that central American civilizations
were direct offshoots of Atlantis. This was back in the thirties,
well before Huxley.
Brent
kevin sawad brooks
artaud is a very important french modernist avant-garde playwright.
one of his theoretical works is _the theater and its double_.
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>From: ksbr...@ellis.uchicago.edu (kevin sawad brooks)
>Subject: Re: Who was Antonin Artaud?
>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 07:21:25 GMT
Wasn't involved with the _The Theatre of the Absurb_ also?
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Kjetil Svarstad
> [Lots of facts about Artaud deleted]
> 6. Played Marat in a famous film
6.5 He also played the sympathetic monk/gatekeeper in C. T. Dreyer's
classic "Jeanne D'Arc". I'll always remember his wild, yet empathic
eyes.
> 7. Went mad for a long time
Yes. As far as I can remember, he spent the latter part of his life in
an asylum, and he also died there.
-- Kjetil
Jonathan Beasley Murray
No. He was released and, I think, regarded as at least semi-sane for a
while. I read recently somewhere (and can't for the life of me remember
where) a description of his last performance in Paris at which various great
and good trustees of the literary imagination were truly moved. He also did
some stuff for radio in the forties, I believe.
Jon
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wasn't he the one who influenced jim morrison so greatly?
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P.A.S.
He was also imprisoned by the Nazis during their occupation of France. I
believe he was tortured, if not at least cruelly abused. I think this
may have contributed to him going insane in his later years.
If you want his books, I suggest you haunt your local used book shops,
that's where I usually see them.
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R.
P.A.S.
Dave Garner
This does not ness. mean he was mad though.
Just 'coz his plays called for characters to suddenly split open and pour
hundereds of cockroaches out onto the stage doesn't mean he was mad.. 8-)
PierrePressure
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Kim Cooper
My favorite Artaud story is that after he got out of the bughouse
it used to take him hours to walk anywhere, because he felt
compelled to touch every tree along the street, even if that
meant crossing the road repeatedly as each new tree presented
itself.
Sounds like the action of a man who'd taken some psylocibin in
his time, non?
P.S. He wasn't a Spaniard, but a Frenchman, born in Nantes.
Kim
Christopher Fox
: He was also imprisoned by the Nazis during their occupation of France. I
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: R.
: P.A.S.
Artaud, in fact, had serious mental disturbances well before the
Nazi occupation. The business about the Nazi's is quite exagerated
here, too.
Alexis David Dinno
Ask a theatre major.
Bobbie Sellers
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in 1976 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
When I started my previous post (fortunately I fouled it up) I had confused the
above with the Henri Michaux book on peyote, "Miserable Miracle" from 1956 by
City Lights Books. So thru ineptness I was spared that confusion being
promulgated to the net.
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