Artaud, Antonin 1896-1948

Artaud on theatre by Antonin Artaud( Book )
16 editions published between 1989 and 2004 in English and held by 264 libraries worldwide
"With Brecht and Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud was one of the great visionaries of twentieth-century theatre, best known perhaps for what he called the "Theatre of Cruelty." This revised and updated edition of Artaud on Theatre contains all of his key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections which have never before appeared in English. Together with an Introduction, biographical notes, and commentary, the collection charts Artaud's work from his early association with surrealism, through his founding of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, to the invocation of his compelling vision in his most famous manifesto, The Theatre and Its Double. Artaud's poetic and inspirational writings called for a fundamental regeneration of Western art. He wanted to return the theatre to its roots in ritual and to transform the audience through total emotional, psychic, and physical involvement. Anarchic and disruptive, he was misunderstood, silenced, and ostracized in his lifetime, but was later championed as an icon of the sixties counterculture. His ideas have inspired the work of Genet, Arrabal, The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Brook, and most of the experimental drama and performance work of recent decades."--Publisher's description

Œuvres complètes by Antonin Artaud( Book )
18 editions published in 1970 in French and held by 259 libraries worldwide

Lettres à Génica Athanasiou, précédées de deux poèmes à elle dédiés by Antonin Artaud( Book )
20 editions published between 1967 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 237 libraries worldwide

Van Gogh : le suicidé de la société by Antonin Artaud( Book )
38 editions published between 1947 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 224 libraries worldwide

Les croix de bois = Wooden crosses by Raymond Bernard( visu )
7 editions published between 1931 and 2015 in French and held by 221 libraries worldwide
Film adaptation of an anti-war novel that follows a French regiment in World War I as it trudges from patriotism to disillusionment

Oeuvres by Antonin Artaud( Book )
12 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in French and held by 217 libraries worldwide
Réunit les textes majeurs d'A. Artaud (1896-1948) dans un ordre chronologique, avec un choix important de textes sur l'art, le cinéma, la littérature et le théâtre, des extraits de correspondances (André Breton, Jacques Rivière, etc.) ainsi que des photographies, des dessins et des témoignages. L'ensemble est complété par une étude de la vie et de l'oeuvre et des notices de présentation

The Cenci by Antonin Artaud( Book )
13 editions published between 1969 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 196 libraries worldwide
Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition. On 8th July 1822 a month before his 30th birthday, during a sudden storm, his tragic early death by drowning robbed our culture of many fine expected masterpieces. But in his short spell on earth he weaved much magic. The Cenci, A Tragedy in Five Acts was a verse play that Shelley tried to have performed at Covent Garden in his lifetime. He was unsuccessful despite the play being his only work to be published in a second edition and many acclaiming the work as a tragic masterpiece. He was inspired to dramatise this real life story of the tragic execution of a young Italian woman in 1599 for the pre meditated murder of her father after viewing a portrait of her, Beatrice Cenci by the painter Guido Reni. After seeing a performance of the play in 1886 George Bernard Shaw commented that: Shelley and Shakespeare are the only dramatists who have dealt in despair of this quality

Messages révolutionnaires by Antonin Artaud( Book )
21 editions published between 1971 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 173 libraries worldwide

Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme by André Breton( Book )
2 editions published between 1938 and 1969 in French and held by 170 libraries worldwide

Œuvres complètes by Antonin Artaud( Book )
in French and held by 137 libraries worldwide