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  • Heliogabalus

    or, The Crowned Anarchist

    by Antonin Artaud ...
    Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, HELIOGABALUS is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author’s preoccupations of the time with ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Theatre and its Double

    by Antonin Artaud ...
    Translated by Mark Taylor-Batty ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation.Containing the famous manifestos of the 'Theatre of Cruelty', this collection of essays analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides suggestions on a physical-training method for ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Revolutionary Messages

    by Antonin Artaud ...
    Translated by Joel White ...
    Series series Theatre Makers
    Published here in its entirety in English, Artaud's Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud's political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936.Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and its Double, it captures a crucial point in Artaud's life shortly before he was admitted to a mental asylum in which he was to spend a significant ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

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  • Surrealism: Key Concepts

    Edited by Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson ...
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    Emerging from the disruption of the First World War, surrealism confronted the resulting ‘crisis of consciousness’ in a way that was arguably more profound than any other cultural movement of the time.The past few decades have seen an expansion of interest in surrealist writers, whose contribution to the history of ideas in the twentieth-century is only now being recognised. Surrealism: Key ... Read more

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  • On Psychological and Visionary Art

    Notes from C. G. Jung’s Lecture on Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Series series Philemon Foundation Series
    The first English translation of Jung’s landmark lecture on Nerval’s hallucinatory memoirIn 1945, at the end of the Second World War and after a long illness, C. G. Jung delivered a lecture in Zürich on the French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval. The lecture focused on Nerval's visionary memoir, Aurélia, which the poet wrote in an ambivalent attempt to emerge from madness. Published here for the ... Read more

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  • The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud

    by Eric Sellin ...
    Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) conceived and inaugurated the 'Theater of Cruelty,' a dramatic movement that has had a profound influence on the avant-garde theater in Europe and the United States. The movement is exemplified by the Peter Brook production of Marat-Sade. This book, the first to analyze Artaud's theories, their sources, and the extent to which he succeeded in implementing them in his own ... Read more

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  • Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement

    by Whitney Chadwick ...
    A revised edition of Whitney Chadwick’s seminal work on the women artists who shaped the Surrealist art movement.This pioneering book stands as the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas, and art works of the remarkable group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their age as they ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

    The Secret Art of the Performer

    by Eugenio Barba ...
    First Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer’s craft, from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a dictionary, this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a guide for students and scholars of transcultural performance. It is the result of many years of research conducted by Eugenio Barba and the ... Read more

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  • Jerzy Grotowski

    by James Slowiak, Jairo Cuesta ...
    Series series Routledge Performance Practitioners
    Master director, teacher, and theorist, Jerzy Grotowski’s work extended well beyond the conventional limits of performance. Now revised and reissued, this book combines:● an overview of Grotowski’s life and the distinct phases of his work● an analysis of his key ideas● a consideration of his role as director of the renowned Polish Laboratory Theatre● a series of practical exercises offering an ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Art in the Light of History

    by Erwin Rosenthal ...
    Erwin Rosenthal’s Contemporary Art in the Light of History, originally published in 1971, is a small masterpiece of writing on the art of the twentieth century. A scholar of medieval art by training and a prominent antiquarian bookseller, Rosenthal, who died in l981, was equally entranced by modern art, particularly abstraction. His three linked essays in this book—“Contemporary Art in the Light ... Read more

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  • The Empty Space

    by Peter Brook ...
    'I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.'Peter Brook's seminal book, an acknowledged classic of theatre writing, sets out many of the ideas about theatre which informed his lifelong work as a theatre director, from his iconic 'white box' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and his ground-breaking adaptation of The Mahabharata, to his work at the International Centre for Theatre ... Read more

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