Revolutionary Messages

Revolutionary Messages

Revolutionary Messages

Revolutionary Messages

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Overview

Published here in its entirety for the first time in English, Artaud's Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud's political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936.

Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and its Double, it captures a crucial point in Artaud's life shortly before he was admitted to a mental asylum in which he was to spend a significant part of his later life.

Revolutionary Messages contains conferences that Artaud gave at the University of Mexico, articles from the daily Mexican newspaper El Nacional Revolucionario and a study of three seminal artists of the time influenced by or from Mexico: Franz Hals, Ortiz Monasterio and Maria Izquierdo.

Not only will you gain crucial insight into Artaud's time in Mexico and his vision of a “total revolution,” which he places in distinction to Marxist and Surrealist conceptions of revolution, but you will deepen your understanding of the philosophical roots of his theatrical project, which ultimately shaped modern theatre and dance.

The publication includes an introduction by the translator, Joel White, and a preface by Professor of European Philosophy, Howard Caygill.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350179011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/19/2024
Series: Theatre Makers
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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 most significant contribution to drama theory is his "Theatre of Cruelty", the ideas of which have been, and continue to be, the subject of influence for modern theatre and contemporary thought.

Joel White completed a joint European Masters in Contemporary European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK, (CREMP) and Paris VIII (Saint-Denis), France, and holds a PhD in French Philosophy from King's College London, UK. He has published on the work of Artaud in Performance Philosophy, Shakespeare, and Walter Benjamin in Angelaki: Jourbanal of the Theoretical Humanities. He is current the executive editor of Technophany: Jourbanal of Philosophy and Technology.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Revolution

I.Three Conferences given at the University of Mexico
Surrealism and Revolution
Humanity against Fate
The Theatre and its Gods

II.Mexico
Post-war Parisian Theater
Open Letter to the State Governors of Mexico
Universal Bases of Culture
First Contact with the Mexican Revolution
A Medea without Fire
Emerging French Painting and Tradition
French Theater Searches its Myth
Why I came to Mexico
The Eternal Culture of Mexico
The False Superiority of the Elite
Eternal Secrets of Culture
The occult Forces of Mexico
The Social Anarchy of Art
I Came to Mexico to Flee European Civilisation

III.Franz Hals – Ortiz Monasterio – Maria Izquierdo
Franz Hals
A Technician of Stone: Monasterio
The paintings of Maria Izquierdo
Maria Izquierdo
Two Notes
Mexico and the Primitive Spirit: Maria Izquierdo

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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