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Article: Cruel journey. (Antonin Artaud's drawings, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 1995
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Behind Antonin Artaud's drawings lies a harrowing tale of nine years' confinement in asylums and 51 brutal electroshock treatments. The author of recent biography argues for the power of Artaud's visual testament.
Few explorations of the human figure have been as obsessional and extraordinary as that undertaken, at the end of his tumultuous life, by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the legendary French Surrealist and theorist of the Theater of Cruelty. The recent exhibition of Artaud's drawings, paintings and manuscripts at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris has given this imagery the chance to acquire the eminence it deserves alongside the other elements of his work. ...