ENGL 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Théâtre Du Nouveau Monde, Pierre Jeanpierre, Claude Gauvreau
28 Mar 2018
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Gauvreau was the longest adherent to automatisme. Held on tenaciously spokesperson for this movement/philosophy. 1941 1955 meetings between 16 individuals discussion of form/themes/etc. Peaked in 1946-8 published manifesto of automatisme refus: you can keep your spoils, rational and premeditated like everything else on the warm bosom of decadence. Automatisme deals with all forms of art (painters, playwrights, dancers, etc. : claude gauvreau (1925-1971) Critics weren"t dismissive of his work, but he didn"t fit in to the dominating forms of theater at the time. He spent two years in a mental institution himself he was in and out of society: sociopolitical quebec at the time, post-war. Inscription was imposed upon quebec for the first and second world wars provoked much tension and movements: we call this period la grande noirceur . Higher institutions - catholic church (health care/education) M. duplessis was elected twice as premier of quebec (36-39 then.
