A Romanian-born French poet and essayist, he is renowned as a founder of Dada, a nihilistic and revolutionary movement in the arts. His early works, including manifestos and foundational Dadaist texts, aimed to shock and dismantle linguistic structures. In Paris, he engaged in tumultuous activities designed to provoke the public. Around 1930, disillusioned with nihilism, he turned towards Surrealism and political engagement, which brought him closer to humanity. His later lyrical poetry explores the anguish of the human condition, caught between revolt and wonder, replacing Dada's chaotic wordplay with a challenging yet humanized language.
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Featuring 25 Dadaist poems by Tristan Tzara alongside ten woodcuts by Hans Arp, this collection invites readers to explore subconscious interpretations akin to Rorschach tests. It captures the essence of the early Dada movement, known for its radical approach to art and literature, making it a valuable collector's item for enthusiasts of avant-garde creativity.
This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his character is apparent not only in his polemic, which often uses dadaist typography, but in the delightful drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. In addition, this volume also contains Tzara's Lampisteries - articles that throw light on various art forms contemporary with his own work, at a time when art, weary of the old certainties, turned into subjective and often abstract forms, favouring the reality of the mind over that of the senses.
The abstract woodcuts by Hans Arp and the poems of Tristan Tzara are among the supreme Dada experiments in bookmaking. This book is an exact facsimile of the French edition, with an English language translation.