No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud

by Lucy Bradnock

This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud

Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and dramatist Antonin Artaud (1896-1948). A generation of artists mobilized Artaud's countercultural ideas to imagine new forms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300251033
• ISBN13: 9780300251036
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 10.3"