Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde

This exhibition catalogue essay examines the reception in the United States of the work of French dissident surrealist Antonin Artaud, and its impact on visual art practice during the post-war period. I argue that artists including Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Nancy Spero identified in Artaud a...

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Main Author: Bradnock, Lucy E.
Other Authors: Baum, Kelly
Format: Book Section
Published: Yale University Press 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44829/
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description This exhibition catalogue essay examines the reception in the United States of the work of French dissident surrealist Antonin Artaud, and its impact on visual art practice during the post-war period. I argue that artists including Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Nancy Spero identified in Artaud a model for dismantling the structures of authority via the linguistic, material, and corporeal mode of delirium.
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spelling nottingham-448292020-05-04T19:06:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44829/ Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde Bradnock, Lucy E. This exhibition catalogue essay examines the reception in the United States of the work of French dissident surrealist Antonin Artaud, and its impact on visual art practice during the post-war period. I argue that artists including Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Nancy Spero identified in Artaud a model for dismantling the structures of authority via the linguistic, material, and corporeal mode of delirium. Yale University Press Baum, Kelly 2017-09-12 Book Section PeerReviewed Bradnock, Lucy E. (2017) Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde. In: Delirious: art at the limits of reason 1950-1980. Yale University Press, New Haven, pp. 64-75. ISBN 9781588396334 (In Press) http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Delirious_Art_at_the_Limits_of_Reason_1950_1980
spellingShingle Bradnock, Lucy E.
Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde
title Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde
title_full Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde
title_fullStr Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde
title_full_unstemmed Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde
title_short Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde
title_sort bite your tongue: antonin artaud and the neo-avant-garde
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44829/
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