The years following the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation provoked an extraordinary period of creativity in art, performance and writing. When the Germans had gone, Paris was a city absorbed with the horrors of the immediate past, but also in the elation of the present. It exuded its liberation in a frenzied landscape of nightclubs and cafes, experiments into making new languages, and imageries of human identity and sexuality. In this book, the author of a biography of Antonin Artaud explores this unique period in the creative history of Europe, and its significant figures, including Genet, Giacometti, Dubuffet and Artaud.
- ISBN10 0571172784
- ISBN13 9780571172788
- Publish Date 31 December 1998 (first published 24 June 1996)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Language English