Blows and Bombs: Antonin Artaud: The Biography

The only biography of avant-garde Surrealist artist, filmmaker and theorist Antonin Artaud is now re-published in a new, expanded and updated edition. Spanning his involvement with the Surrealist movement, the seminal Theatre of Cruelty and his 9-year asylum incarceration, this is the definitive biography on this legendary figure of 20th century culture.Stephen Barber is a noted cultural historian and the leading authority on Artaud. Previous publications include: "The Burning World "(Edmund White biography), "Caligula" and "Artaud: The Screaming Body" (Creation).