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50 drawings to murder magic / Antonin Artaud ; edited with a preface by Évelyne Grossman ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
- Title
- 50 drawings to murder magic / Antonin Artaud ; edited with a preface by Évelyne Grossman ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
- Author
- Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2008.
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- Description
- xv, 82 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "During his nine years of incarceration in mental asylums, magic seemed to have lost its role as source of illumination and transformation to become demonic and persecutory: the realm of the army of spectres and vampires which Antonin Artaud believed were sucking the vitality from his mind and body." "Between 1946 and 1948, Artaud set down in a series of little exercise books some traces of his own struggles to escape a hell which extended far beyond the walls of asylums and the sorcerers who ran them. Eleven of the books are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures, pierced bodies, enigmatic machines, sometimes drawn with a trembling hand, more often built up from firm pencil strokes that erase one form as they create another." "In January 1948, two months before his death, he took a twelfth exercise book and wrote a remarkable, incantatory text to accompany them, '50 Drawings to Murder Magic'. It was the last text he wrote."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- 50 dessins pour assassiner la magie. English & French
- Alternative Title
- 50 dessins pour assassiner la magie.
- Fifty drawings to murder magic
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Facsimiles
- Manuscripts
- Fac-similés.
- Note
- "Published with the support of the Embassy of France in India"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xv).
- Language (note)
- English and French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- 50 drawings to murder magic -- Drawings from the exercise books -- A note on sources.
- ISBN
- 9781905422661
- 1905422660
- LCCN
- ^^2008305008
- OCLC
- 154789485
- SCSB-11382361
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library