Descent into madness entwines Van Gogh, Artaud at Paris exhibition

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Descent into madness entwines Van Gogh, Artaud at Paris exhibition

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/descent-madness-entwines-van-gogh-artaud-paris-exhibition-141607147--sector.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uzIOV7avMLe3o13Crz_EuA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-11T141607Z_1_CBREA2A13N500_RTROPTP_2_FRANCE-VAN-GOGH.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="The shadow of a journalist is cast on the projection of the painting &quot;Champ de Ble aux Corbeaux&quot; by painter Vincent van Gogh during the exhibition &quot;Van Gogh/Artaud The Man Suicided by Society&quot; in Paris" align="left" title="The shadow of a journalist is cast on the projection of the painting &quot;Champ de Ble aux Corbeaux&quot; by painter Vincent van Gogh during the exhibition &quot;Van Gogh/Artaud The Man Suicided by Society&quot; in Paris" border="0" /></a>By Alexandria Sage PARIS (Reuters) - The shrieks of mad women assault visitors entering the Musee d'Orsay's new exhibit on Vincent Van Gogh, an arresting look at the painter's work as seen through the eyes of the late avant-garde French theatre director and playwright Antonin Artaud. &quot;The Man Driven to Suicide by Society&quot;, opening on Tuesday in Paris, is a fitting title for a display of 55 Van Gogh works using Artaud's own commentary to see them in a new light. Artaud - one of the great theorizers about the stage, renowned for his short but seminal 1938 tract &quot;The Theatre of Cruelty&quot; - was, like Van Gogh, tormented throughout his life by hallucinations and hospitalized in psychiatric asylums.</p><br clear="all"/>

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