Revolutionary Messages

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde. Artaud's most significant contribution to drama theory is his "Theatre of Cruelty", the ideas of which have been, and continue to be, the subject of influence for modern theatre and contemporary thought. Joel White completed a joint European Masters in Contemporary European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK, (CREMP) and Paris VIII (Saint-Denis), France, and holds a PhD in French Philosophy from King's College London, UK. He has published on the work of Artaud in Performance Philosophy, Shakespeare, and Walter Benjamin in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. He is current the executive editor of Technophany: Journal of Philosophy and Technology.

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Artaud’s “Messages”
Translating Artaud’s Revolutionary Messages
Artaud’s “Révolution”
Realism or Surrealism
The Double and the Race-principle
The Void and Life-Death
Ni Droite, Ni Gauche?
I THREE LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO
Surrealism and Revolution
Man Against Fate
Theatre and the Gods
II MEXICO
Post-War Theatre in Paris
Open Letter to the Governors of the Mexican States
The Universal Bases of Culture
First Contact with the Mexican Revolution
Medea Without Fire
Young French Painting and Tradition
French Theatre in Search of a Myth
What I Came to Mexico to Do
The Eternal Culture of Mexico
The False Superiority of the Elite
Eternal Secrets of Culture
The Occult Forces of Mexico
The Social Anarchy of Art
I Came to Mexico to Flee European Civilization,
III FRANZ HALS. ORTIZ MONASTERIO. MARIA IZQUIERO
Franz Hals
A Technician of Stonework: Monasterio
The Painting of Maria Izquierdo
Maria Izquierdo
Two Notes
Mexico and the Primitive Spirit: Maria Izquierdo
IV HAVANA
The Eternal Betrayal of White People
Theatre in Mexico
La Corrida and Human Sacrifices
Red Paint
Indians and Metaphysics
V THREE TEXTS ON MEXICO
Awakening of the Thunderbird
Mexico and Civilisation
The Force of Mexico
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX