Artaud

[ar-toh]

noun

1. Antonin 1896–1948, French actor, poet, and drama critic.

Artaud

/ arto /

noun

1. Antonin (ɑ̃tɔnɛ̃). 1896–1948, French stage director and dramatist, whose concept of the theatre of cruelty is expounded in Manifeste du théâtre de la cruauté (1932) and Le Théâtre et son double (1938)

Example Sentences

The opera has to do with its composer, David T. Little, and his relationship to three of his art idols, past and present: filmmaker David Lynch, the late French poet and theorist Antonin Artaud and Beat writer and artist William S. Burroughs.

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But all attention belonged to the riveting Timur, who illuminated the ghostly or grotesquely essence of Artaud, Burroughs, Lynch and, of course, Little.

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Van Gogh’s severed ear also haunts this work, which begins in pain and stays in pain until it frames Artaud’s sought-for final sleep in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, in 1948.

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In the 1930s, an entire movement — the Theater of Cruelty — was formulated, in the words of its founder, Antonin Artaud, to “subvert thought and logic and to shock the spectator into seeing the baseness of his world.”

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It is also, as Artaud specified, immersive, sensational, extreme.

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