Faust Foutu

by Robert Duncan

Book Overview

Faust Foutu (Faust Screwed) is a satire featuring a mid-20th-century Faust as a bourgeois artist "suffering" for his art. It was first performed by poets and painters in San Francisco in 1955. The book includes drawings by the poet made to accompany the printed text.

"In the early fifties the art of painting was at the cutting edge (Clyfford Still, Pollock, Rothko) -- it's not surprising that this "screwed" Faust is a painter or that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882680196
• ISBN13: 9780882680194
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"