Lucas Van Leyden, Lot and His Daughters
A new post now up at Jacket2: https://jacket2.org/commentary/artaud-theater-asylum
“Artaud’s seminal theater text, The Theater and Its Double, took a long time to publish. Although the essays were composed between 1932 and 1935, the book didn’t appear until 1938, once Artaud had already been institutionalized. The inspirations for Artaud’s theory of performance, which he named the Theater of Cruelty, range from Lucas Van Leyden’s Lot and His Daughters to Balinese theater to the Marx Brothers. Artaud wanted to create an experience from ‘a kind of unique language half-way between gesture and thought.'[2]”
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