NEW 50 Drawings to Murder Magic by Antonin Artaud RARE Surrealism Manuscript

  

NEW incredibly rare facsimile printing of leading figure of the 20th century Avant Garde Antonin Artaud's asylum notebooks, recounting in word and image his schizophrenic revelations concerning art and spirituality. A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde.

A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic is rooted in the nine years Artaud spent in mental asylums, struggling with schizophrenia and the demonic, persecutory visions it unleashed. Set down in a dozen exercise books written between 1946 and 1948, these pieces trace Artauds struggle to escape a personal hell that extends far beyond the walls of asylums and the dark magicians he believed ran them. The first eleven notebooks are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures, pierced bodies, and enigmatic machines, some revealing the marks of a trembling hand, others carefully built up from firm, forceful pencil strokes. The twelfth notebook, completed two months before Artauds death in 1948, changes course: its an extraordinary text on the loss of magic to the demonicthe piece that gives the book its title. Artaud matters, wrote John Simon in the Saturday Review years ago.

Nearly seventy years after his death, that remains trueperhaps more than ever. The item "NEW 50 Drawings to Murder Magic by Antonin Artaud RARE Surrealism Manuscript" is in sale since Monday, February 22, 2021.

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• Literary Period/Movement: Modernism
• Modified Item: No
• Topic: Art
• Cultural Region: French Literature
• Series: French List
• Type: Poetry
• Title: 50 Drawings to Murder Magic
• Author: Antonin Artaud
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Genre: Modern & Contemporary
• Age Level: Adults
• Era: 20th Century
• Special Attributes: Illustrated
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Year: 2008
• Language: English