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Artaud : blows and bombs / Stephen Barber.
Van Pelt Library PQ2601.R677 Z563 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barber, Stephen, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.
- Artaud, Antonin.
- Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Updated. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Creation, 2003.
- Summary:
- The only biography of avant-garde Surrealist artist, filmmaker and theorist Antonin Artaud is now re-published in a new, expanded and updated edition. Spanning his involvement with the Surrealist movement, the seminal Theatre of Cruelty and his 9-year asylum incarceration, this is the definitive biography on this legendary figure of 20th century culture.
- Stephen Barber is a noted cultural historian and the leading authority on Artaud. Previous publications include: "The Burning World "(Edmund White biography), "Caligula" and "Artaud: The Screaming Body" (Creation).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840680822
- OCLC:
- 53436171
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