Blows and Bombs: Antonin Artaud: The Biography

Blows and Bombs: Antonin Artaud: The Biography

by Stephen Barber

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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 The Burning World (Edmund White biography), Caligula and The Screaming Body (Creation).

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