Artaud The Moma

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543700
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artaud the Moma written by Jacques Derrida and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums, while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida . . . will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings." For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida—and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist.

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antonin Artaud written by Antonin Artaud and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/10/96 - 7/1/97.

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783035802351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artaud the Mômo written by Antonin Artaud and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artaud the Mômo is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an unprecedented anatomical excavation carried through in vocal language, envisioning new gestural futures for the human body in its splintered fragments. With black humor, Artaud also illuminates his own status as the scorned, Marseille-born child-fool, the "mômo" (a self-naming that fascinated Jacques Derrida in his writings on this work). Artaud moves between extreme irreligious obscenity and delicate evocations of his immediate corporeal perception and his sense of solitude. The book's five-part sequence ends with Artaud's caustic denunciation of psychiatric institutions and of the very concept of madness itself. This edition is translated by Clayton Eshleman, the acclaimed foremost translator of Artaud's work. This will be the first edition since the original 1947 publication to present the work in the spatial format Artaud intended. It also incorporates eight original drawings by Artaud--showing reconfigured bodies as weapons of resistance and assault--which he selected for that edition, after having initially attempted to persuade Pablo Picasso to collaborate with him. Additional critical material draws on Artaud's previously unknown manuscript letters written between 1946 and 1948 to the book's publisher, Pierre Bordas, which give unique insights into the work from its origins to its publication.

Author : Margit Rowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper written by Margit Rowell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783035802481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Human Face" and Other Writings on His Drawings written by Antonin Artaud and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive collection in English of Antonin Artaud's writings on his artworks. The many major exhibitions of Antonin Artaud's drawings and drawn notebook pages in recent years--at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Vienna's Museum Moderner Kunst, and Paris's Centre Georges Pompidou--have entirely transformed our perception of his work, reorienting it toward the artworks of his final years. This volume collects all three of Artaud's major writings on his artworks. "The Human Face" (1947) was written as the catalog text for Artaud's only gallery exhibition of his drawings during his lifetime, focusing on his approach to making portraits of his friends at the decrepit pavilion in the Paris suburbs where he spent the final year of his life. "Ten years that language is gone" (1947) examines the drawings Artaud made in his notebooks--his main creative medium at the end of his life--and their capacity to electrify his creativity when language failed him. "50 Drawings to assassinate magic" (1948), the residue of an abandoned book of Artaud's drawings, approaches the act of drawing as part of the weaponry deployed by Artaud at the very end of his life to combat malevolent assaults and attempted acts of assassination. Together, these three extraordinary texts--pitched between writing and image--project Artaud's ferocious engagement with the act of drawing.

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783035802504
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Radio Works: 1946-48 written by Antonin Artaud and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most experimental and incendiary project, To Have Done with the Judgement of God, 1947-48, in which he attempted to create a new language of texts, screams, and cacophonies: a language designed to be heard by millions, aimed, as Artaud said, for "road-menders." In the broadcast, he interrogated corporeality and introduced the idea of the "body without organs," crucial to the later work of Deleuze and Guattari. The broadcast, commissioned by the French national radio station, was banned shortly before its planned transmission, much to Artaud's fury. This volume collects all of the texts for To Have Done with the Judgement of God, together with several of the letters Artaud wrote to friends and enemies in the short period between his work's censorship and his death. Also included is the text of an earlier broadcast from 1946, Madness and Black Magic, written as a manifesto prefiguring his subsequent broadcast. Clayton Eshleman's extraordinary translations of the broadcasts activate these works in their extreme provocation.

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783035803648
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Lies Preceded by the Indian Culture written by Antonin Artaud and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonin Artaud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Watchfiends & Rack Screams written by Antonin Artaud and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Clayton Eschleman A collection of writings ranging from cogent theoretical works to scatological glossolalia written during and after Artaud's incarceration in an aslum at Rodez creating one of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded.

Author : Jodi Hauptman
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 : 9780870706646
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing from the Modern written by Jodi Hauptman and published by The Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 30-Aug. 29, 2005.

Author : Lucy Bradnock
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300251033
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No More Masterpieces written by Lucy Bradnock and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and dramatist Antonin Artaud (1896-1948). A generation of artists mobilized Artaud's countercultural ideas to imagine new forms of representation and to redefine the relationship between artist and audience. The book shows how Artaud's radical writings inspired the experimental theatrical work of John Cage, Rachel Rosenthal, and Allan Kaprow; the attack on artistic and social conventions launched by assemblage artists Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner; and the feminist work of Carolee Schneemann and Nancy Spero. Lucy Bradnock traces the dissemination of Artaud's writings in America and demonstrates how his interest in political and cultural disorder, the dangers of authority, and the unreliability of representation found fertile ground in the context of the Cold War, disillusionment with the ideals of Abstract Expressionism, and the early years of identity politics.