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Article: "Antonin Artaud: works on paper." (insane artist)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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"Few graphic expressions in the twentieth century show the power and authentic inner necessity seen in the drawings of Antonin Artaud . . . they show the heightened sensibility and critical lucidity of a mind at odds with society and unable to compromise with its conventions." That is the standard Artaud defense, put forward by Margit Rowell, curator of the MoMA exhibition. The reason he needs defending is the stark diagnostic probability offered by Rowell: Artaud (1896-1948) "suffered from confabulatory paraphrenia, a delusional psychosis which is not accompanied by intellectual deterioration and in which some symptoms - hallucinations and confabulations - are close to ...
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...Behind Antonin Artaud's drawings lies a harrowing tale ... the end of his tumultuous life, by Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), the legendary French ... Cruelty. The recent exhibition of Artaud's drawings, paintings and manuscripts ...
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