Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper
New York: The Museum of Modern Art / Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Hardcover.
Catalogue of a MOMA exhibition held October 1996 - January 1997 comprising approximately seventy works on paper.
These drawings by French avant-garde artist Antonin Artaud were executed between 1937 and early 1948, years when Artaud was mostly confined in psychiatric institutions in France or under medical supervision. Margit Rowell opines that these his drawings of the period are no more the creation of an alienated personality than is the written work that he produced at the same time and for which he is celebrated. Instead, they show the heightened sensibility and critical lucidity of a mind at odds with society and unable to compromise with its conventions.
Item #902723ISBN: 0810961687
Quarter black cloth, grey paper over boards with titles in black and brown, passport photograph of the artist pasted-on front board, red endpapers, 168pp, chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, credits, MOMA trustees, fully illustrated in color and black and white.
3/4" line of toning to top-edge of front board else clean, tight, very good.
Price: $45.00