Artaud and His Doubles

Index

243 index Abdy, Iya, 165 Adorno, Theodor, 117, 183, 184 anarchy (“organized anarchy”), 45, 85, 171 animal magnetism, 52, 126, 135, 176–77. See also mesmerism anti-Semitism, 21, 53 Antliff, Mark, 67 Antoine, André, 80–81, 136, 138, 139, 142. See also Théâtre Libre apocalyptic worldview: in fascist aesthetics, 35, 47, 68, 70, 98, 105, 115; literature, 35, 65, 207n17 Appia, Adolphe, 134, 139, 141, 143, 144, 173 Arden of Feversham, 174 Arendt, Hannah, 28, 70, 183 Aron, Robert, 144 Aronson, Arnold, 90 Art Work of the Future, The. See Wagner , Richard Artaud, Antonin: asylum years, 6, 7, 9, 17–19, 176; death of, 8, 10; early life, 9; film roles, 5, 7; intellect, 15–16, 18–21; mental state, 3–5, 6, 7–8, 10, 16–17, 20–21, 127, 175–76, 184; as messiah/martyr, 7–10, 20, 21, 175–76, 186, 202n10; oeuvre of, 19, 24, 27, 184, 190; photographs/ stills of, 7–8, 18; politics of, 65, 68, 111, 189, 214nn40–41; religion of, 10, 21; travels of, 5, 6, 9 Artaud, Antonin, artistic philosophies of: apocalyptic worldview, 1, 23, 35, 44–46, 65, 106, 175–76; cruelty, 1, 13, 14, 15, 61–62, 71, 197–99; evil, 1, 6, 37–38, 44, 67, 197; freedom, 6, 12, 24–26, 48, 69, 85–86, 120, 123, 190–96; liberation , 6, 12, 14, 24–26, 48, 51, 69, 112–13, 119, 190–96; nihilism, 192, 197–99; resistance, 7, 13, 15–16, 17, 19, 193; revolution, 7, 12–15, 16, 35, 68, 84, 92–93, 189; scatology , 197–98; suffering, 7–10, 14, 16–19, 46, 48–49, 151, 202n16, 205n53; superior will, 190, 196–97; violence, 14, 61, 71, 129, 150–53, 155–56, 163, 190, 192. See also cruelty; revolution; suffering; violence Artaud, Antonin, and the theater. See Cenci, The; Theater and Its Double, The; Theater of Cruelty; Théâtre Alfred Jarry Artaud, Antonin, works by: Burnt Belly, or the Mad Mother (Ventre brûlé, ou la mère folle), 148; Cenci, The (Les Cenci) (see Cenci, The); Correspondance avec Jacques Rivière, 3–5, 16; drawings, 6, 18; essays, 5, 6; “Evolution of Décor, The,” 22; “Fragments of a Diary from Hell” (“Fragments d’un journal d’enfer ”), 3; Heliogabalus, 24, 31, 160, 211n20; In Total Darkness (À la grande nuit), 12; Jet of Blood, 32, 147–48, 156; “Letter to the Clairvoyant ,” 192; letters, 3–5; “Nerve Meter, The,” 125–29, 176, 177; New Revelations of Being, The (Les nouvelles révélations de l’être), 175, 184; No More Firmament (Il n’y a plus de firmament), 147, 208n24; Oeuvres Artaud, Antonin, works by (continued) complètes d’Antonin Artaud, 3, 20; Philosopher’s Stone, The (La pierre philosophale), 155–56; poetry, 3–6, 16–17, 21, 125–29, 197–98; Revolution surréaliste, La, 15; Selected Writings , 7–8; “Theater and the Plague, The” (see Theater and Its Double, The); “Théâtre de séraphin, Le,” 167; To Have Done with the Judgment of God (Pour en finir avec le judgment de dieu), 13, 16–17; “Umbilicus of Limbo, The,” 152 Aschheim, Stephen, 27 Atelier, 5, 94, 157, 165–66. See also Dullin, Charles audience: agitation techniques, 82–84, 92, 99, 120; audience/director relationship , 24, 137, 142, 144, 150, 152–53; audience/performer relationship , 79–80, 84–85, 89, 92–96, 111–12, 121–22, 216nn15–16; avantgarde audience, 23, 75, 79–85, 92–95, 97, 216nn15–16; behavior, 77, 215n6; comfort, 76, 78, 80–81; control , 75, 79–80, 84, 86, 88–90, 116–17, 158, 168, 171–72, 230n41; immersion techniques, 80, 84–85, 89–90, 92, 95, 99; as organisme, 87–88, 91, 95, 114, 116; and the spectacle, 78–79, 113–14, 116, 123, 124, 169, 171–72, 215–16n7; and “total theater ,” 89–91, 111–14, 144. See also crowd theory; theater; Theater and Its Double, The; Theater of Cruelty avant-garde: and the audience, 23, 75, 79–85, 92–95, 97, 216nn15–16; as cultural movement, 32–33, 37, 45; and primitivism, 33, 58, 114; theater , 40, 58, 85, 93–95, 116, 194–95. See also Naturalism; Symbolism Bacchae, The. See Euripides Balinese theater, 57, 58, 59, 60, 69, 170–71, 172, 203n22, 211n17 Barrault, Jean-Louis, 94, 135, 142, 151, 158, 165, 174 Baty, Gaston, 94, 138, 139, 140, 142, 149, 157, 164 Bauhaus artists, 90, 111 Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 80, 89, 95 Beck, Julian (the Living Theatre), 11, 13–15, 197...