Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, André Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of Picabia's writings, gathering a sizable array of Picabia's poetry and prose and, most importantly, providing a critical context for it with an extensive introduction and detailed notes by the translator. Picabia's poetry and prose is belligerent, abstract, polemical, radical, and sometimes simply baffling. For too long, Picabia's writings have been presented as raw events, rule-breaking manifestations of inspirational carpe diem. This book reveals them to be something entirely different: maddening in their resistance to meaning, full of outrageous posturing, and hiding a frail, confused, and fitful personality behind egoistic bravura. I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of of Picabia's significant publications, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.

I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation

Arts & Photography

Picabia, Francis

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

The first definitive edition in English of writings by poet, painter, pickpocket-plagiarist, and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia, one of Dada's leading figures.
Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, André Breton called Picabia one of the only “true” Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of Picabia's writings, gathering a sizable array of Picabia's poetry and prose and, most importantly, providing a critical context for it with an extensive introduction and detailed notes by the translator.
Picabia's poetry and prose is belligerent, abstract, polemical, radical, and sometimes simply baffling. For too long, Picabia's writings have been presented as raw events, rule-breaking manifestations of inspirational carpe diem. This book reveals them to be something entirely different: maddening in their resistance to meaning, full of outrageous posturing, and hiding a frail, confused, and fitful personality behind egoistic bravura.
I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of of Picabia's significant publications, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.

MIT Press]

Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Hanuman Books

Yes No (Hanuman Book No. 39)

Francis Picabia: Les nus et la méthode : 17 octobre 1997-3 janvier 1998 (French Edition)

Reunion des musees nationaux

Francis Picabia: [exposition], Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 23 janvier-29 mars 1976 : [catalogue (Série des catalogues du Département des ... Georges-Pompidou ; no 2) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou

Francis Picabia: das Spätwerk 1933-1953

Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg

Unser Kopf ist rund, damit das Denken die Richtung wechseln kann.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Edition Nautilus

<div>This novel contains one of the subtlest evocations ever written about the irresistible charm of the intelligentsia in the early twentieth century. This visionary recreation of the world accompanies us in this fun testimony of the avant-garde adventures of a crazed Europe. Written in 1924, this work was forgotten until it reappeared in Canada to be published in 1974.</div>

Pandemonio (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Malpaso Editorial

The early decades of the 20th century saw unprecedented cooperation between the performing and visual arts. Painters and other visual artists working in a variety of avant-garde styles, such as Cubism, Surrealism, Dadaism, Constructivism, and Futurism, worked in the world of theater and dance throughout Europe, creating masterpieces inspired by the explosion of creativity in the performing arts, from the ballets of Diaghilev and Balanchine to the plays of the Russian Meierkhol'd and Futurists such as Marinetti, and operas by the likes of Wagner and Offenbach. It was this burst of integration that led to the formulation of the idea of the "Total Art Creation," (a term coined by Wagner), and enriched both the theater and the visual arts. This handsome volume, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid, examines these avant-garde experiments in fusion between the arts with extensive color illustrations by virtually every major painter of the period: artists like Picasso, Kandinsky, Leger, and others, as well as in-depth essays on several of the performing art forms and the ways they involved visual artists in their production.

Painters In The Theater Of The European Avant-Garde

Matisse, Henri

KANDINSKY, WASSILY

LISSITZKY, El

Mondrian, Piet

DERAIN, André

GROSZ, George

MIRÓ, JOAN

De Chirico, Giorgio

Michaud, Éric

Rodchenko, Alexander

Malevich, Kasimir

Léger, Fernand

PICASSO, Pablo

Gris, Juan

Garafola, Linn

Paz, Marga

Editorial Palacios y Museos

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