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Book SynopsisPublished here in its entirety in English, Artaud's Revolutionary Messages collects Antonin Artaud's political, aesthetic and philosophical writings during his travels to Mexico in 1936.
Written around the same time as his seminal work The Theatre and its Double, it captures a crucial point in Artaud''s life shortly before he was admitted to a mental asylum in which he was to spend a significant part of his later life.
Revolutionary Messages contains conferences that Artaud gave at the University of Mexico, articles from the daily Mexican newspaper El Nacional Revolucionario and a study of three seminal artists of the time influenced by or from Mexico: Franz Hals, Ortiz Monasterio and Maria Izquierdo.
Not only will you gain crucial insight into Artaud's time in Mexico and his vision of a total revolution, which he places in distinction to Marxist and Surrealist conceptions of revolution, but you will deepen your understanding of th
