Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde

Bradnock, Lucy E.

Abstract

This exhibition catalogue essay examines the reception in the United States of the work of French dissident surrealist Antonin Artaud, and its impact on visual art practice during the post-war period. I argue that artists including Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Nancy Spero identified in Artaud a model for dismantling the structures of authority via the linguistic, material, and corporeal mode of delirium.

Citation

Bradnock, L. E. (2017). Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde. In K. Baum (Ed.), Delirious: art at the limits of reason 1950-1980. Yale University Press

• Publication Date: Sep 12, 2017
• Deposit Date: Aug 14, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 12, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Delirious: art at the limits of reason 1950-1980
• ISBN: 9781588396334
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/882451
• Publisher URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Delirious_Art_at_the_Limits_of_Reason_1950_1980
• Additional Information: Excerpted from "Bite Your Tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde" by Lucy Bradnock in Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980. Copyright © 2017 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Reprinted by permission.
• Contract Date: Aug 14, 2017