50 Drawings to Murder Magic Prints

50 Drawings to Murder Magic PrintsA poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic is rooted in the nine years Artaud spent in mental asylums, struggling with schizophrenia and the demonic, persecutory visions it unleashed. Set down in a dozen exercise books written between 1946 and

Taking its title from Karl Marx’s description of religion as the world’s ‘logic in a popular form’

These surreal inversions of reality take the viewer to the interior world of the subject and

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Nottingham

in a dazzling palette

And together

fiction and literary genealogy

humour acts as a point of access through which other issues

Imagined as a show of documents

Jayasimha Chandrashekar

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