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Theatre of Cruelty
Author | : Frederic P. Miller,Agnes F. Vandome,John McBrewster |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2010-07-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 6131823049 |
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Theatre of Cruelty is a concept in Antonin Artaud's book The Theatre and its Double. "Without an element of cruelty at the root of every spectacle, the theatre is not possible. In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds" (Artaud, The Theatre and its Double). By cruelty, he meant not sadism or causing pain, but rather a violent, austere, physical determination to shatter the false reality which, he said, lies like a shroud over our perceptions. Antonin Artaud spoke of cruelty not in the sense of being violent, but the cruelty it takes for actors to completely strip away their masks and show an audience a truth that they do not want to see. He believed that text had been a tyrant over meaning, and advocated, instead, for a theatre made up of a unique language that lay halfway between thought and gesture. Artaud described the spiritual in physical terms, and believed that all expression is physical expression in space.
Artaud s Theatre Of Cruelty
Author | : Albert Bermel |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781408148280 |
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The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud's theatre of cruelty is one of the most vital forces in world theatre, yet the concept is one of the most frequently misunderstood. In this incisive study, Albert Bermel looks closely at Artaud's work as a playwright, director, actor, designer, producer and critic, and provides a fresh insight into his ideas, innovations and, above all, his writings. Tracing the theatre of cruelty's origins in earlier dramatic conventions, tribal rituals of cleansing, transfiguration and exaltation, and in related arts such as film and dance, Bermel examines each of Artaud's six plays for form and meaning, as well as surveying the application of Artaud's theories and techniques to the international theatre of recent years.
The Medieval Theater of Cruelty
Author | : Jody Enders |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801487838 |
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Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections among rhetoric, law, drama, literary creation, and violence, Jody Enders addresses an issue that has long troubled students of the Middle Ages. Theories of rhetoric and law of the time reveal, she points out, that the ideology of torture was a widely accepted means for exploiting such essential elements of the stage and stagecraft as dramatic verisimilitude, pity, fear, and catharsis to fabricate truth. Analyzing the consequences of torture for the history of aesthetics in general and of drama in particular, Enders shows that if the violence embedded in the history of rhetoric is acknowledged, we are better able to understand not only the enduring "theater of cruelty" identified by theorists from Isidore of Seville to Antonin Artaud, but also the continuing modern devotion to the spectacle of pain.
Theater of Cruelty
Author | : Ian Buruma |
Publsiher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781590177778 |
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Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Ian Buruma is fascinated, he writes, “by what makes the human species behave atrociously.” In Theater of Cruelty the acclaimed author of The Wages of Guilt and Year Zero: A History of 1945 once again turns to World War II to explore that question—to the Nazi occupation of Paris, the Allied bombing of German cities, the international controversies over Anne Frank’s diaries, Japan’s militarist intellectuals and its kamikaze pilots. One way that people respond to power and cruelty, Buruma argues, is through art, and the art that most interests him reveals the dark impulses beneath the veneer of civilized behavior. This is what draws him to German and Japanese artists such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Mishima Yukio, and Yokoo Tadanori, as well as to filmmakers such as Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. All were affected by fascism and its terrible consequences; all “looked into the abyss and made art of what they saw.” Whether he is writing in this wide-ranging collection about war, artists, or film—or about David Bowie’s music, R. Crumb’s drawings, the Palestinians of the West Bank, or Asian theme parks—Ian Buruma brings sympathetic historical insight and shrewd aesthetic judgment to understanding the diverse ways that people deal with violence and cruelty in life and in art. Theater of Cruelty includes eight pages of color and black & white images.
Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater
Author | : Laurens De Vos |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-04-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781611470451 |
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Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud. A key concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, desire lies at the root of the Theatre of Cruelty; Kane and Beckett prove that desire and cruelty are inextricably linked to one another, but that they appear in radically different disguises. Relying on Kane and Beckett, this book not only sheds a light on the precise intentions behind Artaud's project, it also maps out the structural parallels and dichotomies between the Theatre of Cruelty and the literary genre of tragedy.
The Art of Cruelty
Author | : Maggie Nelson |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393343144 |
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"This is criticism at its best." —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Writing in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in art. From Sylvia Plath’s poetry to Francis Bacon’s paintings, from the Saw franchise to Yoko Ono’s performance art, Nelson’s nuanced exploration across the artistic landscape ultimately offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo, and permissibility.
The theater and its double
Author | : Antonin Artaud |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : 0802141390 |
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The Balcony
Author | : Jean Genet |
Publsiher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780802150349 |
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The clients of a French brothel act out their fantasies while a revolution rages in the city