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A fascinating, wild ride through the mind of an eloquent Artaud and it is tempting to try and pick out the passage in his poems, letters and essays where his madness peeks through, but would miss the point of the wide-ranging quest for a new world, best summed up so far in a letter to Rivière: “an actual expansion of reality” (p. 44). By the time I got to his parody Limbo his Mind was too far gone?
— Sep 18, 2018 08:18PM
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It becomes more apparent in Artaud’s letters and essays how trying it would be as his friend to encourage him with advice on his very personal topics. At one moment, he rages against the medical profession for denying him opium, at another he attacks his fellow Surrealists for abandoning the greater purpose to meddle in politics, and then he switches tactics for an eloquent discourse on pure cinema. Truly exhausting.
— Nov 03, 2018 08:57AM
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Not too sure who Susan Sontag is, asides from a feminist icon projected upon a wall in a recent show I worked on, but she certainly knows enough about Artaud to give a brief yet thorough analysis of the artists turned schizophrenic star. His impact on theatre and the avant-garde (until they turned their backs on Artaud when becoming Marxists) is profound yet Sontag points out his longest running show was three weeks.
— Aug 26, 2018 06:05PM
