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de Vree, Paul, 1909-1982

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1909-11-13-1982- - 1982

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Picnic / De Vree, Paul., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-15246-15568
Scope and Contents Mat stamped "Editore Francesco Conz." Internet: Paul de Vree (13 November 1909 in Antwerp, Belgium - 25 April 1982 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Belgian poet, artist, publisher and critic. In the early 50s De Vree abandoned writing traditional poetry and then went through the stages of audiovisual poetry, concrete-visual poetry, visual poetry and poesia visiva. His works can be situated in the tradition of the international avant-garde that ran from Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti via Van Ostaijen to Raoul Hausmann and Dada. De Vree created images of poetic, social and existential insights that appeared on constantly changing supports. De Vree was a complex and important figure with an international network and field of activity. He was particularly active in concrete and visual poetry and was important for the arts in his role as a critic and exhibition organiser. In 1953 De Vree initiated and co-founded De Tafelronde (1953-1981) magazine,...
Dates: 1969

Poesia Visiva, 1975

 Item — Box 611: [Barcode: 31858072460854]
Identifier: CC-52632-73768
Scope and Contents

Although 15 issues of this series were listed, it appears that only six were published. The Sackner Archive holds all six issues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Poesia Visiva 1962-1991 / Miccini, Eugenio ; Apicella R ; Chopin H ; D'Ambrosio M ; DeVree P ; Dorfles G ; Fontana G ; Martin H ; Menna F ; Mucci E ; Rossa A ; Verdi F ; Sackner MA., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06195-6309
Scope and Contents

Includes reproductions of collages and assemblages (pp 72, 166, 167, 180, 199) held by the Sackner Archive. A varient of a collage which is reproduced on p 261 is also held by the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Poesia Visiva een Keuze / De Vree, Paul., 1979

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Identifier: CC-15700-16029
Scope and Contents

The portfolio was water damaged and the prints were trimmed after the accident. The images remain intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Poesia Visiva Internazionale / Arias-Misson A ; Bory JF ; Damen H ; DeVree P ; Marcucci L ; Miccini E ; Ori L ; Perfetti M ; Sarenco ; Apicella R., 1972

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Identifier: CC-28582-29871
Scope and Contents

This book describes an exhibition and a symposium that included sound poetry, which was held in Venice in June 1972. The critic, Rossana Apicella, mentions, "Let us hope, si licet, that visual poetry will not meet with rapid success, that it will remain immediate, violent, mad and popular, erudite and authentically experimental; there is a risk, otherwise, that according to the logic of human destiny it will get up to a dangerous pedestal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

poezien, 1971

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Identifier: CC-15300-15622
Scope and Contents

This book depicts an sampling of De Vree's poetic styles. Two original typed pages held by the Sackner Archive are reproduced in this book, "mier mens" page 17 and "picnic" page 25. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Revolutie, 1968

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-16007-16348
Scope and Contents

This is among the most widely reproduced concrete poems of Paul De Vree. The word "Revolutie," printed in a circular way in red color has been fractured across its middle and placed slightly to the right of its top half to give an optical sense of movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968