{"product_id":"9781350179011","title":"Artaud's Revolutionary Messages","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eArtaud's Revolutionary Messages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Antonin Artaud\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished here in its entirety for the first time in English,\u003ci\u003e Messages Révolutionnaires\u003c\/i\u003e collects Antonin Artaud's political and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten around the same time as his seminal work \u003ci\u003eThe Theatre and its Double,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 part of his later life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Messages\u003c\/i\u003e contains papers that Artaud gave at the University of Mexico, articles from the daily Mexican newspaper \u003ci\u003eEl Nacional Revolucionario \u003c\/i\u003eand a study of three seminal artists of the time influenced by Mexico - Franz Hals, Ortiz Monasterio and Maria Izquierdo.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot only will you gain crucial insight into Artaud's time in Mexico and his vision of a 'total revolution' in opposition to Marxist and Surrealist conceptions of revolution at the time, but you will deepen your understanding of his theatrical project, which ultimately shaped modern theatre. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe publication includes an extensive introduction by the translator and a preface by an Artaud scholar, Joel White.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Artaud] has had an impact so profound that the course of all recent serious theatre in Western Europe and the Americas can be said to divide into two periods - before Artaud and after Artaud.” —\u003ci\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Theater and Its Double\u003c\/i\u003e is far and away the most important thing that has been written about the theater in the twentieth century. It should be read again and again. Artaud oozed magical desires. He was the metaphysician of the theater.” —\u003ci\u003eJean-Loius Barrault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre” —\u003ci\u003eGerald Rabkin, Professor of Theatre, Rutgers University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350179011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40826129055950,"sku":"9781350179011","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350179011","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}