Faust Foutu: an Entertainment in Four Parts

Autor*innen

• Robert Duncan

Parameter

• 84 Seiten
• 3 Lesestunden

• Geografie
• Historisches Thema
• Karten & Reisen
• Sachliteratur
• Sammelwerke, Anthologien

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Faust Foutu (Faust Screwed) is a mid-20th-century satire featuring a bourgeois artist grappling with the struggles of his craft. Originally performed by poets and painters in San Francisco in 1955, the work includes the poet's drawings that accompany the text. During the early fifties, painting was at the forefront of artistic innovation, making it fitting for this "screwed" Faust to be a painter. The performance took place at the avant-garde Six Gallery, with a cast of friends, actors, experimental filmmakers, poets, painters, and playwrights. Poet Jack Spicer engaged the audience with a mix of intensity and boyish innocence, while filmmaker Larry Jordan was encouraged to sing Faust's songs loudly and naturally, relying on his untrained voice. Jess Collins, a painter and close friend of Duncan, delivered his lines with clarity and irony. The presentation focused on auditory experience rather than traditional acting, emphasizing the sound of the words. This "comic masque" was first performed in 1955 and published in a small edition in 1960, with the poet's drawings reproduced in this trade edition.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Hardcover