The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934
How Antonin appears in its pages: The French poet and theatre director she met in 1933. He wrote her letters for a year, then accused her of never having loved him.
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- Playwright
- Actor
Antonin Artaud
Poet of the Theatre of Cruelty — and, on screen, Marat in Gance's Napoléon, the monk Massieu in The Passion of Joan of Arc, and the screenwriter of The Seashell and the Clergyman.
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- 1896–1948
- 1896
- 1948
- French
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Antonin Artaud Featured in These Books
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939
How Antonin appears in its pages: The French poet and theatre theorist Nin had known in the previous volume. He is glimpsed in the street here, and then committed — and she defends him in a café to a stranger.
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Featuring — Film
Napoléon
Featuring — Film
The Passion of Joan of Arc
People Antonin Artaud Knew
Abel Gance
- Filmmaker
- Actor
Met · 1925–1926
Artaud played Marat during the twenty-month Napoléon shoot, opposite Gance's own Saint-Just. It is one of two screen roles that carried him into film history.
Germaine Dulac
- Filmmaker
- Critic
Collaborated with · 1927
Artaud wrote the scenario for The Seashell and the Clergyman and Dulac directed it. The two fell out over the result, and the surrealists disrupted the premiere at the Studio des Ursulines in February 1928; accounts differ on who led the disturbance and on where Artaud himself stood.
Connections and Sources
Met · 1925–1926
Abel Gance
Artaud played Marat during the twenty-month Napoléon shoot, opposite Gance's own Saint-Just. It is one of two screen roles that carried him into film history.
Collaborated with · 1927
Germaine Dulac
Artaud wrote the scenario for The Seashell and the Clergyman and Dulac directed it. The two fell out over the result, and the surrealists disrupted the premiere at the Studio des Ursulines in February 1928; accounts differ on who led the disturbance and on where Artaud himself stood.
References
References
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1Encyclopaedia Britannica — Napoléon (film by Gance)
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2La Cinémathèque française — Napoléon vu par Abel Gance, enfin reconstruit et restauré
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3Encyclopaedia Britannica — La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
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4Encyclopaedia Britannica — Germaine Dulac
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5The Museum of Modern Art — The Seashell and the Clergyman (collection record)
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