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Record Nr.

UNINA9910130894103321

Autore

Crombez Thomas

Titolo

Het anti-theater van Antonin Artaud : Een onderzoek naar de veralgemeende artistieke transgressie toegepast op het werk van Romeo Castellucci en de Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio / / Thomas Crombez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gent, : Academia Press, 2008

Gent : , : Academia Press, , 2008

ISBN

9789038212739

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Ginkgo Het antitheater van Antonin Artaud

Soggetti

Romance Literatures

Languages & Literatures

French Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Olandese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to violate the law on a theatrical stage? This is the central question in the following examination of modern theatre, beginning with the avant-garde, but also including the contemporary and iconoclastic work of the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. For the historical avant-garde, art could be the gateway to a new and liberated reality. But then all of existing reality first had to be demolished, and its laws consistently violated. Ultimately, this transgressive programme ends in discouragement and self-sabotage. Such an 'anti-theatre' has been explored most extensively in the writings of the French director and essayist Antonin Artaud. A careful exploration of Artaud's work, emphasizing his actual theatrical productions, shows that this paradox does not necessarily lead to a dead end. Generalized transgression may lead to a theatre that belongs more to philosophy than to art itself.