Scope and Contents The first of what was to have been a two volume work; the author died before completing Volume Two. This first volume covers the classic age of collage, prior to WW II and contains some material on the 1950's and 1960's. The author, Dr. Herta Wescher, was the friend of many Bauhaus and other collage artists.Her writing embodies the enthusiasm, humor, affection, and personal comprehension of a participant in the lively and contentious circles she frequented. Assiduously she tracked down reminiscences and forgotten works from those tumultuous times, rescuing from oblivion much previously unpublished material. Thanks to her research, the reader may not only see the output of world-famous collagists, but also may meet the brilliant but often neglected Czech adherents of Futurist and later styles; the Russian Avant Garde; the loners from various parts of the world, all of whom helped make collage one of the most direct and unguarded forms of expression in the long history of art." --...

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Subtitled "American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939." Includes a detailed description of Bob Brown and his book, "Readies" in the chapter, The Roving Eye. The Sackner Archive holds Readies - a gift of Eric Estorick. This edition is a reprinting of the book that was first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese literature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relationship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the influences of Japanese writers on world literature. He also provides a critical analysis of Kitasono's poetic working methods with several translations of poems written in Japanese to English. He mentions that in the late 1920s, Katue published "Collection of White Poems" that was translated by Solt. This is a constellation long before Gomringer declared this form, concrete poetry, e.g. white residence - white table - pink noblelady - white distant view - blue sky, etc. Solt records the following. "Other Western poets took notice of the VOU translations. High praise came from Hugh Gordon Porteus, who wrote in Criterion in 1939, "The most fruitful experiments with language are likely to continue to emerge from those who concern themselves with images and their relations, rather than with idle wordspinning. Nothing...

Scope and Contents After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and surrealism, Mayakovsky, Russian Futurism and Brecht, to the post-modernist writers Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, and Pynchon. This book also includes a section of political poetry such as "The Future of Socialism" by Helmut Heissenbuttel below.nobody exploitsnobody oppressesnobody is exploitednobody is oppressednobody wins anythingnobody loses anythingnobody is masternobody is slavenobody is superiornobody is subordinatenobody owes anything to younobody does anything to younobody owns nothingnobody exploits nobodynobody oppresses nobodynobody is exploited by nobodynobody is oppressed by nobodynobody wins nothingnobody loses nothingnobody is master of nobodynobody is slave of nobodynobody is superior to nobodynobody is subordinate to nobodynobody owes anything to nobodynobody does anything to...

Scope and Contents After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and surrealism, Mayakovsky, Russian Futurism and Brecht, to the post-modernist writers Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, and Pynchon. This book also includes a section of political poetry such as "The Future of Socialism" by Helmut Heissenbuttel below.nobody exploitsnobody oppressesnobody is exploitednobody is oppressednobody wins anythingnobody loses anythingnobody is masternobody is slavenobody is superiornobody is subordinatenobody owes anything to younobody does anything to younobody owns nothingnobody exploits nobodynobody oppresses nobodynobody is exploited by nobodynobody is oppressed by nobodynobody wins nothingnobody loses nothingnobody is master of nobodynobody is slave of nobodynobody is superior to nobodynobody is subordinate to nobodynobody owes anything to nobodynobody does anything to...