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

Tzara, Tristan

Arts & Photography

John Calder

The famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based 
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 toward art that existed at the time. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos collected here, 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 (Oneworld Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Oneworld Classics

Chanson Dada contains all the poems of legendary Dada Poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) translated by English poet Lee Harwood. Begun in 1963 with Tzara's enthusiastic approval, the translations are selected from the full range of Tzara's published works, from those informed with the rebellious impulse towards absolute artistic freedom and the 'destruction' of formal language, to those concerned with the human act of struggle, and with moral affirmation.    Also included is an introduction by Lee Harwood, a bibliography of Tzara's work, and Harwood's illuminating essay, "dada/My Heart Belongs to Dada."

Chanson Dada: Selected Poems

Harwood, Lee

Poetry

Coach House Pr

Text: English, French (translation)

Cosmic realities vanilla tobacco dawnings

Arc Publications

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.

Cinema Calendrier Du Coeur Abstrait Maisons

Arp, Hans

History & Criticism

Artists Bookworks

This major anthology of writings by legendary poet Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the only English language source for a complete version of Tzara's epic Approximate Man now widely regarded as the poetic masterpiece of Surrealism. Included is a critical introduction, an account of variants, and an essay setting the context for the poem. Completely revised, updated edition of this now classic survey.

Approximate Man and Other Writings: Approximate Man and Other Writings

CAWS, Mary Ann

Black Widow Press

Poetry. Translated from the French by Heather Green. Bilingual Edition. In NOONTIMES WON, Tristan Tzara floods the pages with a torrent of images. In Heather Green's translation of Tzara's 1939 collection, in cosmic imagery beside communist imagery, we see Tzara's peripatetic mind haunted by the death and destruction he'd witnessed in Madrid and elsewhere in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Unpunctuated lines move like gears, one phrase turning into the next in a relentless forward motion. By contrast, the voice, at times halting and desolate, is made of a profoundly human doubt: "I sang I bit the hook / of what I know."

Noontimes Won

Octopus Books

Le Cœur à gaz est une pièce de théâtre de langue française par l'auteur Tristan Tzara, écrit comme une parodie du théâtre classique.  Organisée à Paris en 1921 à la Galerie Montaigne, elle est l'une des pièces les plus reconnaissables inspirés par la tendance anticonformiste connue comme le dadaïsme.  Le texte de cette édition comprend une traduction en anglais en plus des poèmes et des écrits d'artistes influencés par Tzara.  Le Cœur à gaz (The Gas-Operated Heart) is a play in French by Tristan Tzara, written as a parody of classical theater. Performed amidst protest and anarchy in Paris in 1921 at the Galerie Montaigne, it is one of the most recognizable theatre pieces inspired by the iconoclastic poetry movement known as Dada.  The original text of this edition includes an English translation of the play in addition to poems and writings of the surrealist artists influenced by Tzara.

Le Coeur à gaz (French Edition)

Dramas & Plays

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A book of 25 Dadaist poems by Tristan Tzara, as well as ten woodcuts by artist Hans Arp, that approach Rohrschach for subconscious interpretation. A wonderful collector's item from the early era of the most radical art movement the world has ever known.

Tristan Tzara 25 Poems, Hans Arp 10 Woodcuts

lulu.com

"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."

Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

Alma Classics

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