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Tzara, Tristan, 1896-1963

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1896 - 1963

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

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

Dada / Verkauf, Willy, editor ; Janco, Marcel, editor ; Bolliger, Hans, editor ; Hausmann R ; Picabia F ; Ball H ; Arp H ; Grosz G ; VanDoesburg T ; Duchamp M ; Tzara T ; Schwitters K., 1965

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Identifier: CC-00861-880
Scope and Contents

This 1965 reprint of the book first published in 1958 includes a Dada lexicon and chronology from 1914 to 1925 of events, artists and publications. Willy Verkauf aka Andre Verlon -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Documents Dada / Lecat, Jacques, editor ; Picabia F ; Ernst M ; Tzara T ; Crotti J., 1974

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Identifier: CC-07421-7565
Scope and Contents

Contains reproductions of Dada emphemeral material, viz., posters, invitations, announcements and programs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Juin / Luiggi, Philippe ; Apollinaire G ; Barthes R ; Bataille G ; Breton A ; Cendrars B ; Char R ; Jacob M ; Queneau R ; Tzara T ; Vian B., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06851-6973
Scope and Contents

Luiggi used the initial 'E.' for his surname in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Le Coeur A Gaz / Tzara, Tristan., 1946

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Identifier: CC-55605-64906
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: The Gas Heart or The Gas-Operated Heart[1] (French: Le CÅ“ur à gaz) is a French-language play by Romanian-born author Tristan Tzara. It was written as a series of non sequiturs and a parody of classical drama"”it has three acts despite being short enough to qualify as a one-act play. A part-musical performance that features ballet numbers, it is one of the most recognizable plays inspired by the anti-establishment trend known as Dadaism. The Gas Heart was first staged in Paris, as part of the 1921 "Dada Salon" at the Galerie Montaigne.In The Gas Heart, Tzara's appears to have aimed at overturning theatrical tradition, in particular the three-act play, which resulted in the suggestion that the text is "the greatest three-act hoax of the century". American literary historian David Graver, who compares The Gas Heart with Le Serin muet, a play by Tzara's friend Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, notes of the two texts that, together, they "pulverize the elements of conventional...
Dates: 1946

Pleute glotz Euch an restlos - Dada; Ubi DADA, ibi bene / Bergius, Hanne, editor ; Reese, Harry ; Arp H ; Baader J ; Ball H ; Ernst M ; Grosz G ; Hausmann R ; Huelsenbeck R ; Mehring W ; Ray M ; Schwitters K ; Tzara T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23933-24381
Scope and Contents

This is designated No.25 in the series, Werkzeichnis. It contains prints with dada texts reinterpreted with contemporary typography by the press. There are three abstract expressionistic paintings on paper included in this work which were done by Harry Reese (Turkey Press, Santa Barbara, California). The soft cover book by Hanne Bergius, subtitled "Yes to the gigantic world-nonsence," is an essay on the definition of Dada. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992