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Title	[Antonin Artaud], Self-Portrait.
Creator	Artaud, Antonin [Antoine Marie Joseph] (French writer, draughtsman, stage designer, actor and director, 1896-1948)
Date	1946 or 1947
Cultural Context	French European Western European
Theme	Drawings (visual works) Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Portraits Self-portraits Heads (representations) Men (male humans) Authors Poets Actors Directors (performing arts) Playwrights Draftsmen (artists) Hairstyles Wrinkles
Subject	Drawings Pencil works Portrait drawings Portraits Self-portraits Heads (Anatomy) Men Authors Poets Actors Theatrical producers & directors Dramatists Draftspersons Hairstyles
Description	"Artaud's late drawings have been a comparatively recent discovery. His poetry and writings on the theatre were better known previously. In the latter respect, his notions of catharsis had a decisive impact on the Body Art of the 1970s. After the Second World War, and long spells of confinement in asylums, Artaud marked his return to Paris with a legendary performance at the Vieux Colombes theatre in 1947. With some of the great literary figures of the day sitting in the audience, he emitted screams, curses, and guttural incantations." (Caption, p.75); "Whether European figuration of the 1950s saw man as embodying the principles of existential choice, popularly available in Sartre's pamphlet 'Existentialism and Humanism' (1946), or of bestial irrationality, as in the Bataillean concerns of Bacon, this period saw the demise of a related notion - the artist as tragic genius. Certainly, isolated or eccentric figures abounded. In many ways the frenetic late drawings of the former Surrealist Antonin Artaud, produced just after the war had ended and comparable to works by Fautrier or Wols […], had set the tone for this apotheosis of the artiste maudit. Hospitalized at the psychiatric asylum at Rodez in France during 1943-6, Artaud identified himself with Van Gogh, producing self-images manifesting a fierce desire to burst the bounds of identity. Asserting the rights of the body over the mind, Artaud wrote: 'the human face is temporarily, / and I say temporarily, / all that is left of the demand, / of the revolutionary demand of a body that is not yet and was never in keeping with this face'. Frantic, he gouged out the eyes of one self-image, in the attempt to reach his internal 'other'. A slightly later self-image, its surface bruised and blotched from reworkings, exudes a hard-won dignity." (Excerpt, p.75)
People Pictured	Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948
Material	Pencil on paper Pencils (drawing and writing equipment) Paper (fiber product)
Measurements	55 x 54 cm
Technique	Drawing (image-making)
Work Type	Drawings Portrait drawings Self-portraits Portraits Pencil works
Repository	Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris, France) Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.74, fig.37)
Rights	Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Cliché Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. © ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-31.jpg
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