Antonin Artaud
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Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and ci
Artaud in 1926
Self-portrait of Artaud from 1947
Avant-garde
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In the arts and literature, the term avant-garde identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideol
Antonin Artaud
…variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Known for his raw, surreal…
Avant-garde cinema, The Love of Zero (1927), a short film directed by the artist Robert Florey
Political revolution has influenced both the topic and form in The Overthrow of the Autocracy, a Soviet avant-garde painting circa the Russian Revolution.
The cultural provocation of avant-garde art: Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp. (Alfred Stieglitz)
In "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), Walter Benjamin addresses the artistic and cultural, social, economic, and political functions of art in a capitalist society.