Artaud, Antonin

Artaud, Antonin, Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947). Reprinted in Artaud, Antonin, Selected Writings, edited by Susan Sontag (Berkeley University of California Press, 1976). 

While still on the topic of words and language, I can t resist mentioning French playwright Antonin Artaud, who once said, All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar s teeth. I was never 100 percent sure as to what he meant by this, and many people considered him insane. Perhaps Artaud would agree with the observation my friends at work often make When people talk, what is actually communicated is often much less than what each party intended to communicate. ... 

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was a philosopher and glossolaliac who consumed peyote with the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico. He believed that peyote triggers the brain to remember supreme truths difficult to obtain by other means. While using peyote, he saw shapes rise from his belly that looked like the letters of a very ancient and mysterious alphabet. The letters J and E in particular rose and glowed fiercely. 

I answer that we are all in a state of frightful Antonin Artaud... 

The Peyote Dance, Antonin Artaud (Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1976)... 

European theories of the theatre were equally important. Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud had opposing views about the proper relationship between performers and spectators, but both saw non-Shakespearean Renaissance drama as a possible model. Artaud cited John Ford s Tis Pity... 

Stephen Barber, Antonin Artaud Blows and Bombs (London Faber, 1993), p. 96. Oscar G. Brockett and Robert R. Findlay, Century of Innovation A History of European and American Theater and Drama Since the Late Nineteenth Century (Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall, 1973), p. 564. 

Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin adaptation of Riders, Senora Carrar s Rifles Antonin Artaud visits the Aran Islands to retrace the footsteps of Synge. 

Dale, C. (2002). Cruel Antonin Artaud Giles Deleuze. In B. Massumi (Ed.), A shock to thought Expression after Deleuze and Guattari. London New York Routledge... 

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