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Title: Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag ISBN: 0-520-06443-7 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tome essential to all theatre artists
Comment: Studying Artaud is one way of taking a deep dive off into the realm of the unknown. His struggle to fully comprehend and describe lucidly his thought process and the clockwork of his soul; his obsessive desire and drive to break beyond the mundane level of median psycological theatre to rediscover the fiery roots and potent magic of the theatre event; and his visionary words---all of these combine to give us a man who was deep, profound and troubled---hence, utterly human, and truly inspirational to any theatre artist or artist in general. This translation of some of his most essential writings is essential to anyone who wishes to study the avant garde theatre. His influence is at times lucid and clearly defined; at other times, one sees that the myth of Artaud has distorted what the actual man wanted and worked for. In dealing with any artist who has created such a controversy (in his own time as well as in our time), one has to approach his work with the discipline of a tightrope walker. And Sontag's work provides the researcher with a straight, keen and powerful translation. Among the other translations of Artaud, this one is the best anthology available for the experienced researcher and the burning initiate. Read it as an athlete of the heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: The theatre, life and writings of a brilliant lunatic
Comment: This isn't a book that you read from cover to cover. Find a subject that interests you. Then another. And then another. Soon you'll find yourself caught in his web of genius. His madness came from his endless spring of sanity that could no longer hold up under the insanity of the world he lived in. Genius suffers. He suffered too much. Years ago I saw a one man play "Artaud's Project" in Chicago. Best piece of theatre I've ever seen. This was my introduction to Artaud. This book captures this brilliant lunatic's crystal clear vision and pain. His letters are prehaps the highlight of this collection. This book is not for the masses, though, I wish it were. So much insanity and ignorance could be wiped out in a single stroke if people understood this man. Of course the sane appear to be insane in an insane world. If any of what I've said makes the least bit of sense to you this book is for you!
Rating: 5
Summary: Artaud: what and where and how were you thinking?
Comment: Selected Writings isn't an easy read. I jumped around a lot. This stuff is the most intense stuff I've ever come across. Artaud is one of the most important writers to rationalise beyond logic. His ideas on Van Gogh prove, beyond doubt, that his sense of aesthetics was far more acute than his contemporaries. They always said weird stuff about Neitszche, how he was more 'in touch with himself' than other writers or, indeed, society at large. But Artaud explodes that idea, since he continually toys with his own sense of himself to the extreme. Reading Artaud for prolonged periods is like going beyond this (his) sense of self to another place, something completely new and agonizing. His ideas abouty the theatre are quite well established but there is other stuff here. The poems, monologues and just the sheer variety of 'inner scenarios' at play here really astounds you. 'To have done with the judgement of God' must be the most extreme form of self expressed mental torture around! (incidentally, am I correct in thinking there is a recording of this piece knockin' around?) Anyways, please take a slice of the insanity, you never know where it will lead you...
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Title: The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud, Mary C. Richards ISBN: 0802150306 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Anthology by Antonin Artaud, Jack Hirschman ISBN: 0872860000 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: December, 1965 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Artaud: The Screaming Body by Stephen Barber ISBN: 1840680091 Publisher: Creation Pub Group Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Brecht on Theatre : The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett ISBN: 0809005425 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 1964 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Blows and Bombs : Antonin Artaud: The Biography by Stephen Barber ISBN: 1840680822 Publisher: Creation Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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