Word: artaud
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...Since childhood it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca. I had never traveled, never been to Europe, had very little money, so I worked in a factory and then in a bookstore and I saved for about two years. We just lived on bread and a little cheese, but it was so romantic. I imagined someday having a gallery and an atelier, and here I am. My atelier is a little hotel that overlooks Montparnasse...
...decades. Juppé's punishment - which also included an 18-month suspended prison term - suggests that courts plan to get tough on corruption. Some voters interpreted Juppé's heavy punishment as long overdue retribution. "Juppé seems to be paying for the others who got off," says Nathalie Artaud, 29, an Internet project manager for a Paris ad agency. "Still, courts have to begin enforcing the law with politicians one day, and if it has to start with Juppé, so be it." Paris graduate student Thomas Brun agrees: "The sentence is tough, but not necessarily unfair. The court...
...ultimate heroes are Einstein, because hes really smart, and Artaud, because hes nuts. But in a good...
...mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this remarkable and anguished work...
...drama department, Harvard has a sizable number of legitimately talented theater practicioners. But rare is the actor or director who is willing to reach outside of the realist tradition into some of the other realms of dramatic presentation--true Brechtian "presentational" drama, Mamet's recitational method of acting or Artaud's theater of cruelty. Sure, most of the plays on campus aren't set in a suburban kitchen, but they are more often populated by characters than by what critics might call figures, personas or representations...