Tristan Tzara—poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst—was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zürich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic—which often uses dadaist typography—as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries, a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.

Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries (A Calderbook, CB 358)

Arts & Photography

Tristan Tzara

History & Criticism

Riverrun Press

In 1936, French publisher Christian Zervos released a collection of drawings by Henri Matisse as part of his Cahiers d'Art series. Along with 39 stunning Matisse drawings, the book included a preface by Zervos and a poem by Tristan Tzara dedicated to the artist. The drawings, mostly of women—nudes, portraits, interior scenes—express an extraordinary sensuality. This reprint, a facsimile edition faithful to the original, features translations by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and scholar Richard Howard. The beauty of Matisse's simple drawings, as powerful today as in 1936, remains accessible to art lovers and a general audience alike. 39 full-page facsimile reproductions.

Henri Matisse: Drawings 1936, A Facsimile Reproduction

Richard Howard

Henri Matisse

Christian Zervos

Individual Artists

George Braziller, Inc.

Poet-critic Tristan Tzara, brilliant founder of the Dada movement, is just beginning to receive the attention he has long deserved both in France and in English-speaking countries. Very little of his writing has been available in English translation, and much of it has long been out of print in France. 
This volume, a major critical anthology of Tzara's work in English, contains a broad selection of his writings representing the many sides of his creative output: the poetic (including his free verse, catalog and collage poems, prose poems, epic), the dramatic, the critical, and the declamatory. It includes the great Dada surrealist poetic epic of 1925-30, "Approximate Man," remarkable for its inner variety and its ambitious theme, and oriented toward the human and the natural as the Dada were oriented toward deliberate artifice and the antihuman. Tzara's essays on poetry and art, invaluable for correcting the still prevalent opinion that Dada was totally negative, also demonstrate the violence of style and impact that carries over into his later meditations on language and dream. Selections are included from early rudimentary Dada plays, from Cloud Handkerchief, the ironic and romantic collage epic based on Hamlet, and from the lyric monologue Flight.
The accompanying introduction examines Tzara's changing styles, concerns, and commitments, as well as the epic poem that is his masterpiece. Notes are provided for the text. Most valuable for the scholar is an account of the more interesting variants taken from the enormous mass of Tzara's manuscripts. Finally, the combination of spontaneity with poetic effort, of definite themes and centers of interest, lend particular scope to the collection, which is at once essay, critical presentation and anthology.

Tristan Tzara: "Approximate Man" & Other Writings

Literature & Fiction

Wayne State University Press

This classic was first published in 1951. This is the first digital edition, which will be searchable and contain running heads which the original edition did not have. The Dada Painters and Poets. Edited by Robert Motherwell. English transl. by R. Manheim a.o. Bibliography by B. Karpel. Appendices: The Dada Case, by A. Gleizes; A Letter on Hugnet's Dada Spirit in Painting, by T. Tzara; etc. 432 pp., 155 iII., documents, photographs, broadsides, handbills, manifestos and other Dada material reproduced in facsimile, indices.llustrations after:ArpClairDuchampEggelingErnstHausmann]ancoKleePicabiaRichterSchwittersStieglitzTaeuber-Arpet al.andDocumentsObjectsJournalsReviewsManifestoesPhotographsCataloguesInvitationsetc.Texts by:ArpBallBretonBuffet-PicabiaCravanEluardHuelsenbeckHugnetRibemont-DessaignesRichterSatieSchwittersTzaraVachéet al.

The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology

André Breton

[Robert Motherwell]

Kurt Schwitters

Richard Huelsenbeck

Wittenborn Art Books

4 X 1 is as puzzling as it is compelling. Noted editor and translator Pierre Joris brings together four seemingly disparate authors, Rainer Maria Rilke, Tristan Tzara, Jean-Pierre Duprey and Habib Tengour, forming a book of poems, prose-poems, semi-autobiographical prose, and poetic narratives. It is not an anthology, it is not a collected translations, it has roots in no particular literary movement or idea. The only obvious binding factor is presented in the title: that these four works share a single translator. The out-of-the-ordinary seems to be the overriding theme. Even readers familiar with the two well-known authors, Rilke and Tzara, will not find what they expect. Rilke, perhaps Europe’s most famous modernist poet, noted for his Elegies and his posthumously published Letters to a Young Poet, is here represented by a long prose work, "Testament." Tzara, one of the core founders of Dadaism, who wrote the first Dada texts along with the famed Seven Dada Manifestos, is shown through the lens of his complete ethnopoetic work, poems that resonate with the sounds of Africa, Australia and the Pacific. Duprey and Tengour are virtual unknowns to readers in English. Duprey, a late French Surrealist, gained repute early in his short life for his dark, foreboding imagery and recognition by such luminaries as André Breton, who wrote, "You certainly are a great poet, doubled by someone who intrigues me. Your light is extraordinary." Duprey’s prose-poems in 4 X 1 are dreamscapes of intricate language, filled with fantastic creatures of shadowy nightmares. Tengour, the only of the four still alive, has emerged over the years as one of Algeria’s most forceful and visionary francophone poetic voices of the post-colonial era. The selection here is a re-imagination "through contemporary Maghrebian characters in their Occidental exile in Paris the story of that most famous Arab triumvirate of Omar Khayyam, Hassan as-Sabbah and Nizam al-Mulk." However, as the book proceeds from Tzara to Rilke to Duprey to Tengour, the works cast a strange light on the authors' respective literary movements. These works, which have never before been translated into English, subtly alter our understanding of Dadaism, Modernism, Surrealism and Postmodernism. And even more strangely, when the book is taken as a whole, common themes emerge and demand to be recognized. Each work is full of estrangement, dehiscence, mental and physical expulsion; each breaks with psychic and national boundaries, exploding and spilling into the others. Rilke becomes Dadaist, Tzara almost Postmodern, and Duprey’s surrealism slides into Tengour’s Arabian consciousness. Through mutual exile and displacement, the book takes us on a geographic and spiritual excursion through the extraordinary. As Joris remarks in his introduction, fitting the four authors together "was like tracing a weirdly exemplary, if abbreviated, poetic map of the 20th century. . . a psycho-topography that leads from matters involving late 19th century colonialism all the way through the long and torturous 20th century to leave us exactly there where we have to imagine a new cultural constellation." 4 X 1 invites the reader to discover a different sort of book, a collection of different writings in known and unknown spaces, that cannot help but move the reader toward an image of the twentieth century organized without boundaries.

4X1: Works by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey, and Habib Tengour

Rainer, Maria Rilke

Jean-Pierre Duprey

Habib Tengour

Inconundrum Press

Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Translated as a labor of love over a ten year period the poems encompass the full range of Tzara's works, the results of which have brought Tzara's poetry to life for English language readers for over 25 years. Completely revised, updated edition of this classic survey.

Chanson Dada: Tristan Tzara Selected Poems

Commonwealth Books, Black Widow

A new translation of Tristan Tzara's Dada anti-masterpiece, Le coeur à gaz, with an introduction, commentary, and notes on staging by the translator, Eric v.d. Luft.

The Gas Heart: The Dada Anti-Masterpiece of Drama

Dramas & Plays

Gegensatz Pr

An anthology of Rumanian poems, together with their English translations, with an avant–garde flavor, stunning by the evocative strength of their imagery and their ability to create vivid atmospheric states, starting with the youthful poems of Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), in which life might be «sad, but nevertheless a garden», and ending with the disconsolate poems of Mariana Marin (1956–2003), with the surrealist poetry of Paul Celan (1920–1970), Gellu Naum (1915–2001), Ilarie Voronca (1903–1946), Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), oniric poetry by Vintilă Ivănceanu (1940–2008), George Almosnino (1936– 1994), Nora Iuga (1931–) and much more in between. There are uncanny connections in the states of soul, over long stretches of time, between the various poems. Translation supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship.

Something is still present and isn’t, of what’s gone. A bilingual anthology of avant-garde and avant-garde inspired Rumanian poetry

paul-celan

Max Blecher

Ghérasim Luca

Nora Iuga

Gellu Naum

Mariana Marin

B. Fundoianu

Ilarie Voronca

Geo Bogza

George Almosnino

Nichita Stănescu

Vintilă Ivănceanu

Daniel Turcea

ARACNE EDITRICE

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