This is a study of the final period (1946-48) of the French poet, performer and theorist Antonin Artaud. The book assesses the resurgence of Artaud's language after his release from a nine-year asylum incarceration and his return to Paris, his poetic work, recordings for radio, drawings, critical work and his final theory of gestural performance. Dr Barber also analyzes the final correspondence (of 1947) between Artaud and Andre Breton, which looks back on the conflicts which led to Artaud's expulsion from the Surrealist movement 20 years earlier, and provides important new material for students and historians of Surrealism. There is a chronology and bibliography for all of the work, in its many forms, which Artaud produced in his final period.
- ISBN10 0485114771
- ISBN13 9780485114775
- Publish Date 31 March 1995 (first published 18 January 1993)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English