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THE HUMAN FACE AND OTHER WRITINGS ON HIS DRAWIN...

The many major exhibitions of Antonin Artaud's drawings and drawn notebook pages in recent
years-at New York's Museum of Modern Art  Vienna's Museum moderner Kunst (mumok)  and Paris's
Centre Georges Pompidou-have entirely transformed perceptions of the artits's work  reorienting
it towards the artworks of his final years. This volume collects all three of Artaud's major
writings on his artworks  undertaken during the same era as his essay on the work of Van Gogh 
the man suicided by society. All three texts form intensive anatomical explorations and
reconfigurations. Artaud's drawings oscillate between facial portraits and fragmentary arenas
of corporeal contestation.The Human Face (1947) was written as the catalogue text for Artaud's
one and only gallery exhibition of his drawings during his lifetime  and focuses on his
approach to making portraits of his friends at the decrepit pavilion in the Paris suburbs where
he spent the final year of his life. Ten years that language is gone (1947) examines the
drawings Artaud made in his notebooks-his main creative medium at the end of his life-and their
capacity to spark his creativity when language failed him. 50 Drawings to assassinate magic
(1948)  the residue of an abandoned book of Artaud's drawings  approaches the act of drawing as
part of the weaponry deployed by Artaud at the very end of his life to combat malevolent
assaults and attempted acts of assassination. Together these three extraordinary texts-pitched
between writing and image-project Artaud's ferocious engagement with the act of drawing.

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