Weapons of liberation

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.