Weapons of Liberation: Creativity in Post-war Paris

by StephenBarber (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $5.22

  The years following the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation provoked an extraordinary period of creativity in art, performance and writing. When the Germans had gone, Paris was a city absorbed with the horrors of the immediate past, but also in the elation of the present. It exuded its liberation in a frenzied landscape of nightclubs and cafes, experiments into making new languages, and imageries of human identity and sexuality. In this book, the author of a biography of Antonin Artaud explores this unique period in the creative history of Europe, and its significant figures, including Genet, Giacometti, Dubuffet and Artaud.