Antonin Artaud: 1896-1948 This Image by Man Ray Taken in 1926
Antonin Artaud: 1896-1948 This Image by Man Ray Taken in 1926
Antonin Artaud: 1896-1948 This Image by Man Ray Taken in 1926
Artaud
1896-1948
This image by
Man Ray taken in
1926
Artaud in 1947
1896 and all that
• Births of Andre Breton, Tristran Tzara
and Artaud (September 4)
• premiere of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu, Oscar
Wilde’s Salome, Anton Checkhov’s The
Seagull
• first modern Olympics in Paris,
• death of Alfred Nobel and birth of the
prize
• Sigmund Freud’s Aetiology of Hysteria
Artaud’s work
• letters
• theatre, art and film reviews and criticism,
• essays, texts on theatre, manifestoes, poems, screenplays
(notably 'La coquille et le clergyman' of 1927), a novel,
translations from English texts by Lewis Carroll and
Shelley's 'The Cenci' fragments,
• spells, sketches, portraits,
• recordings
• acting roles in cinema and on stage.
• There are 28 volumes of his Oeuvres Complètes in French
chez Gallimard.
Artaud Chronology
• 1921 joins Théâtre de l’Atelier dir Charles Dullin
• 1922 actor and designer with Théâtre de l’Atelier
• 1923 joins Pitoeff at Comédie des Çhamps- Elysées in a
number of productions including Six Characters in Search
of an Author by Pirandello
• Begins writing to Jacques Rivière, editor of NRF
• 1924 Fait Divers screen debut, ‘L’Evolution du décor’
published in Comoedia, joins the Surrealists
• 1925 Director of the Surrealist Research Bureau, shooting
of Napoleon by Abel Gance.
Artaud Chronology
• 1925 ‘Sur le suicide’ in Le Disque Vert, no. 1
• ‘Textes surréalistes’, ‘Réponse à l'enquête sur le Suicide’,
‘Rêves’, in La Revolution Surréaliste no. 2
• ‘L'activité du Bureau de recherches surréalistes’, ‘Lettre
aux Recteurs des Universités Européennes’, ‘Adresse au
Pape’, ‘Adresse au Dalai-Lama’, ‘Lettre aux Médecins-
Chefs des asiles de fous’, in La Revolution Surréaliste no.
3
• Le Pèse-Nerfs, suivi de Lettres de ménage (couverture de
André Masson), impr. de Leibovitz, Paris
• L'Ombilic des Limbes, NRF Gallimard, Paris
• ‘Nouvelle lettre sur moi-même’, in La Revolution
Surréaliste no. 5
Artaud Chronology
• 1926 ‘L'Enclume des forces’, ‘Invocation à la Momie’;
poèmes, in La Revolution Surréaliste no.7
• ‘Lettre à la voyante’, ‘Uccello le poil’, in La Revolution
Surréaliste no. 8
• Formation of Théâtre Alfred Jarry with Roger Vitrac and
Robert Aron
• Expulsion from Surrealists
• 1927 A la grande nuit, ou le Bluff surrealiste, Paris
(l'auteur)
• Correspondance avec Jacques Rivière, NRF, Gallimard,
Paris
Late 1920s
• 1927-28 performances of Théâtre Alfred Jarry
• ‘L'Osselet Toxique’, in La Revolution Surréaliste
no. 9
• June 1928 performance of A Dream Play
disrupted by Surrealists results in a final break.