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Section 3 - Trespass

(1) Tadeusz Kantor’s manifesto The Theatre of Death 1975 Galeria fokal psp books, Warszawa.

(2) This is a quote from Nenagh Watson - expressing how it was to be in A Short Lesson.

(3) H. Atlan quoted in Beyond the Graven Image – a Jewish View by Lionel Kochan Macmillan Press ISBN 0-333-62596-X 1997

(4) Stanley Mitchell’s 1973 introduction to Walter Benjamin’s Undertanding Brecht, published by NLB ISBN 902308 99 8

(5) An Introductory Guide to Post-structuralism & Postmodernism by Madan Sarup published by Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988 ISBN 0-7450-1360-0

(6) A note about 'corpse' - this is when the 'real' comes into the 'artifical' - and is a term that describes an 'actor' coming out of character and laughing.

The photograph and the above drawing by Kantor shows Nenagh Watson as the Censor in 'A Very Short Lesson' 1989

(7) Introduction - A New Lease of Death by G.M.Hyde in Wielopole Wielopole by Tadeusz Kantor, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd,1990 ISBN 0-7145-2782-3
The quote below shows the extremes within Kantor's work and its feral appeal - blood and rust.

His sensibility was formed by the European avant –guarde: to trace the stages of his development is to pass through many of the major movements in contemporary painting. Dada provided what Kantor calls ‘fluidity’, and what he refers to as ‘the provocative presence of the object’, an important component in his brand of realism. For Kantor , the Dada object has proved more perminantly disturbing than the dream image of surrealism. The afterlife of junk, wreckage is another manifestation of death: things become themselves somewhere between the scrapheap and infinity.

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