The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition history— from our founding in to the present—is available online. It includes exhibition catalogues, primary documents, installation views, and an index of participating artists. K 'if T. ISBN Abrams. Abrams, Inc. Printed in the United States of America.
Cover: Antonin Artaud, passport photograph, Frontispiece: Antonin Artaud, Photographed by Denise Colomb. Marthe Robert 25 "I am the body's insurgent. Antonin Artaud 42 "Les figures sur la page inerte. Antonin Artaud 61 "Mes dessins ne sont pas des dessins. Antonin Artaud 94 "Le visage humain. Antonin Artaud, who died almost fifty years ago, profound alienation and isolation from the world, remains one of this century's more compelling — like van Gogh, he experienced fits of erratic and complicated — literary figures, a man of behavior that gave way to periods in which he enormous talent and insight whose disturbed and was able to create images of transcendent power often difficult life inflected almost every aspect of from the depths of his experiences, and, as with his work.
Troubled by mental illness and addicted van Gogh, these bursts of creativity were, para to drugs, he explored his inner world through doxically, often accompanied by moments of poetry and prose, creating a body of material terrifying torment, self-loathing, and anguish.
In whose haunting depictions of alienation, trauma, their alienation and suffering, both men have and pain have few parallels.
Best known for his become emblematic of the modern artist at odds "Theater of Cruelty," a project based on his with the world. And while opportunity in this country to examine the full Artaud's literary genius was recognized — if not extent of Artaud's graphic work. Highly charged fully appreciated — during his lifetime, it is only and expressive, as intense as they are personal, recently that his legacy as a visual artist has these strange incantations and spells, fragmented become clear.
