TY  - BOOK
AU  - Derrida,Jacques
AU  - Cabañas,Kaira M.
AU  - Kamuf,Peggy
TI  - Artaud the Moma
T2  - Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
SN  - 9780231181662
AV  - NC248.A72 D4717513 2017
U1  - 792.028092 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Artaud the Moma --; Afterword --; Notes --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums, while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida . . . will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings."For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida-and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/derr18166
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231543705
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231543705/original
ER  -