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Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1896 - 1963

Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:

A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; MacLow J ; Ginsberg A ; Schwerner A ; Hirschman J ; Tarn N ; Tzara T ; Meltzer D ; Corman C ; Berge C ; Antin D ; Celan P ; Benveniste A ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Rothenberg E ; Kostelanetz R ; Isou I ; Abulafia A ; Berman W ; Morrow C ; Drachler R ; Shaw K ; Kaprow A ; Corner P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31534-33027
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Big Jewish Book: Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to Present / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; MacLow J ; Ginsberg A ; Schwerner A ; Hirschman J ; Tarn N ; Tzara T ; Meltzer D ; Corman C ; Berge C ; Antin D ; Celan P ; Benveniste A ; Zukofsky L ; Stein G ; Rothenberg E ; Kostelanetz R ; Isou I ; Abulafia A ; Berman W ; Morrow C ; Drachler R ; Shaw K ; Kaprow A ; Corner P., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-31526-33019
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Rothenberg describes his preliminary work organizing this book and visualized it as "an image in this instance of some supreme yiddish surrealistic vaudevillle" he could set into motion. Rothenberg adds a commentary section to each of the poems and provides a section on its source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

A Cavalier History of Surrealism / Vaneigem, Raoul ; Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator ; Breton A ; Tzara T ; Artaud A ; Char R ; Eluard P ; Duchamp M ; Leiris M ; Desnos R ; Peret B ; Aragon L ; Teige K., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34515-36214
Scope and Contents

Raoul Vaneigem, aka Jules-Francois Dupuis, first published this text as Histoire desinvolte du surrealisme in 1977. Vaneigem was a leader and writer in the Situationist International. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Abulafia's Circles / Rothenberg, Jerome ; Berman W ; Tzara T., 1979

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Identifier: CC-51946-73047
Scope and Contents

The cover reproduces a verifax collage by Wallace Berman. The poems deal with the tragedy of the Holocaust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Brancusi Tzara und die Rumanische Avantgarde / Michael Ilk, curator ; Tzara T ; Janco M ; Luca G ; Tanguy Y ; Brauner V., 1997

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Identifier: CC-31932-33457
Scope and Contents

The first section of this catalogue written by Michael Ilk presents an illustrated chronology of the Rumanian Avant Garde movement from 1892 to 1947 on a year by year basis. The second section deals with periodicals including among others Contemporanul, Pictopoezia, Punct, Integral, and Umu. The third section depicts pages and covers from illustrated books and the final section is a bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

cARTe / Tzara T ; Isou I ; Oisteanu V., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20374-20771
Scope and Contents

Includes an essay about the exhibition of Romanian artist books by Andrei Plesu, "Image, Writing, Breathing," in which he concludes: "And the microcosmic spirit of wind is the breath (k'i). Writing is an embodied breathing, a hieroglyph of the vital soul itself. And in a sense, the exhibition we ponder over is a discourse about breathing, about the meaningful rhythms of spontaneity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes / Williams, Emmett ; Tzara T ; Arp H ; Huelsenbeck R ; Duchamp M., 1984

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Identifier: CC-33461-35103
Scope and Contents

In this book, Williams depicts chicken footprints as name-portraits or paintings of Dada artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Cinema Calendrier du Coeur Abstrait - Maisons / Tzara, Tristan ; Mary Ann Caws, translator ; Arp H., 1982

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Identifier: CC-29539-30907
Scope and Contents

Twenty-one verses of Cinema Calendar of the Abstract Heart and the poem Houses, are translated in the pamphlet by Caws. The book is a reprint on the 1921 version in which Hans Arp contributed 19 woodcuts that are reproduced in this edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982