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.

Preface
Introduction: Revolution

I.Three Conferences given at the University of Mexico
Surrealism and Revolution
Humanity against Fate
The Theatre and its Gods

II.Mexico
Post-war Parisian Theater
Open Letter to the State Governors of Mexico
Universal Bases of Culture
First Contact with the Mexican Revolution
A Medea without Fire
Emerging French Painting and Tradition
French Theater Searches its Myth
Why I came to Mexico
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 Civilisation

III.Franz Hals – Ortiz Monasterio – Maria Izquierdo
Franz Hals
A Technician of Stone: Monasterio
The paintings of Maria Izquierdo
Maria Izquierdo
Two Notes
Mexico and the Primitive Spirit: Maria Izquierdo

Notes
Bibliography
Index