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Blows and Bombs

The only biography of avant-garde Surrealist artist, filmmaker and theorist Antonin Artaud is now re-published in a new, expanded and updated edition. Spanning his involvement with the Surrealist movement, the seminal Theatre of Cruelty and his 9-year asylum incarceration, this is the definitive biography on this legendary figure of 20th century culture.Stephen Barber is a noted cultural historian and the leading authority on Artaud. Previous publications include: The Burning World (Edmund White biography), Caligula and Artaud: The Screaming Body (Creation).

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 100
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781840680829
  • Genres
  • biography, theatre
  • Release date
  • 2003