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Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von

· The Milk Bowl of Feathers. Essential Surrealist Writings edited by Mary Ann Caws · Dan DADA doe uw werk! · DADA een geschiedenis · Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven DADA poetry: SIMILARITY · Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: ANCESTRY · Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: ONLY ADVENTUROUS ARE RICH · Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: CONTRADICTORY SPECULATIONS · Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: CAFÉ DU DÔME

The Milk Bowl of Feathers. Essential Surrealist Writings edited by Mary Ann Caws

An exciting new collection of the essential writings of surrealism, the European avant-garde movement of the mind’s deepest powers This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is milk-bowl.jpgOriginating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Café Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon created a movement that spread wildly to all corners of the globe, inspiring not only poetry but also artists like Joan Miro and René Magritte and cinematic works by Antonin Artaud, Luis Bunuel, and Salvador Dalí.

As the editor, Mary Ann Caws, says, “Essential to surrealist behavior is a constant state of openness, of readiness for whatever occurs, whatever marvelous object we might come across, manifesting itself against the already thought, the already lived.”

Here are the gems of this major, mind-bending aesthetic, political, and humane movement: writers as diverse as Aragon, Breton, Dalí, René Char, Robert Desnos, Mina Loy, Paul Magritte, Alice Paalen, Gisele Prassinos, Man Ray, Kay Sage, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven are included here, providing a grand picture of this revolutionary movement that shocked the world.

Title: The Milk Bowl of Feathers
Subtitle: Essential Surrealist Writings
Edited by Mary Ann Caws
Publisher: New Directions
Title First Published 25 September 2018
Format Paperback $13.95
ISBN-10 0811227073
ISBN-13 9780811227070
128 pages

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Essential Surrealist Writings
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Dan DADA doe uw werk!

Dan dada doe uw werk!
Avant-gardistische poëzie uit de Lage Landen

Redactie: Geert Buelens, Hubert van den Berg

‘Dan dada doe uw werk!’ Met deze woorden besluit I.K. Bonset in 1921 in De Stijl een tirade tegen pogingen om ‘de kanselliteratuur van vóór ’80’ in het interbellum nieuw leven in te blazen. Of dada het ‘predikantenpathos’ inderdaad wist uit te drijven uit de Nederlandstalige literatuur, valt te betwijfelen. Wel lieten dada en andere avant-gardistische ‘ismen’ hun onmiskenbare sporen na in de Nederlandstalige poëzie.

In Dan dada doe uw werk! presenteren samenstellers Hubert van den Berg en Geert Buelens een dwarsdoorsnede van de poëtische avant-garde in de vroege twintigste eeuw in Nederland en Vlaanderen. De bloemlezing bevat werk van onder anderen Piet Mondriaan, I.K. Bonset, Paul van Ostaijen, Herman van den Bergh, Hendrik de Vries, H. Marsman, Pierre Kemp, Kurt Schwitters, Antony Kok, Victor J. Brunclair, Til Brugman, Gaston Burssens, A.C. Willink, Michel Seuphor en H.N. Werkman.

Dan dada doe uw werk! is het laatste deel in de Dada-reeks van Uitgeverij Vantilt. Eerder verschenen Tenderenda de Fantast van Hugo Ball, In den beginne was Dada van Raoul Hausmann, 7 dadamanifesten van Tristan Tzara, En Avant dada van Richard Huelsenbeck, Een avond in Cabaret Voltaire van Hans Arp e.a., Jezus Christus Quibus van Francis Picabia en Apologie van de luiheid en Pan Pan voor de Poeper van de Neger Naakt & Bar Nicanor van Clément Pansaers.

Geert Buelens, Hubert van den Berg
(Redactie)
Vormgever: Martien Frijns
ISBN 9789460041617
paperback
15 x 22 cm
248 pagina’s
Uitgeverij Vantilt
€ 19,95

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DADA een geschiedenis

Dada
Een geschiedenis

Auteur: Hubert van den Berg

Dada. Een geschiedenis beschrijft het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van de internationale dadabeweging, zoals die zich manifesteerde in onder andere Zürich, Berlijn en Parijs. Bijzondere aandacht is er voor dada-Nederland en dada-België en de belangrijkste hoofdrolspelers daar: Theo van Doesburg/I.K. Bonset, H.N. Werkman, Piet Mondriaan, Clément Pansaers en Paul van Ostaijen.

Dada wordt vaak een antibeweging genoemd. Dada. Een geschiedenis herziet dit eenzijdige, negatieve beeld. In werkelijkheid was dada zowel een synthese van vooroorlogse avantgardistische ‘ismen’ – kubisme, futurisme en expressionisme –, als de opmaat tot het surrealisme en constructivisme. Dada is een cruciale etappe in de ontwikkeling van de moderne kunst en literatuur van de twintigste eeuw, waarvan de echo nog altijd klinkt.

Dada. Een geschiedenis is rijk in kleur geïllustreerd. Een kroniek van de belangrijkste dadakunstenaars, -kunstwerken, -evenementen en -gebeurtenissen completeert het boek.

Hubert van den Berg:
Dada. Een geschiedenis
Vormgever: Martien Frijns
ISBN 9789075697971,
paperback
17 x 22 cm
geïllustreerd
304 pagina’s
Uitgeverij Vantilt
€ 29,95

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven DADA poetry: SIMILARITY

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

(1874 – 1927)

 

SIMILARITY

 

CIVIL LAWS PRESSURE BY MEANS OF INTIMIDATION

FOR RETRIBUTION OF “WRONG”

IS BLACKMAILS IDENTICAL ACTION

TO CONINUE VIBRATINGLY GYRATING

EVOLUTION PROCESS’

PERPETUUM MOBILE.

ALL LIFE – SAVAGE – CIVILIZED IS BASED ON

IMMORTAL MOVEMENT

OF FORCE – CONTRAFORCE –

EACH IN RIGHT OF EIXTENCE –

EACH IN HOSTILE RELATIONSHIPS’ FAMILYFEUD –

INTERMINGLING – TO MERGE INTO STATE.

SOCIETY –

UNDERWORLD ACT FROM JUST PRINCIPLE OF

SELF PRESERVATION TO

– IN VAIN –

ANNIHILATE EACH OTHER –

FINALLY TO EMBRACE –

UNEHTICAL –

FOR UTILITY.

ETHICS IS SOCIETY’S AS UNDERWORLD’S

DIPLOMATIC MEANS TO

INSURE SAFETY’ –

EQUALLY ABANDONNED AS SENTIMENTAL SECOND

FOR DYNAMIC PRINCIPALITY:

EXPANSION.

AS FOAVRO SMILES – UNDERWORLD EMERGES SOCIETY UP –

BY REVERSE – SOCIETY PLUNGES UNDER.

SIMILAR METHODS DIFFER ON SURFACE

BY CONVENTIONS’ TIMEIMPOSED

LAWAPPLICATION LEGALIZED BY FORCE – VICTOR –

CRIMINAL – CRIMINAL VICTORIOUS –

RULER BY GRACE OF POWER –

BOMBASTICALLY PROCLAIMING EVERBOYD’S LAW

LAWFUL-L- FOR BUT HIS PARTY.

(MUSSOLINI.)

ALL IS IDENTICAL

PIOUS POMP – SOLEMN MUMMERY – GRACEFUL GESTURE –

RESPLENDENT VARNISH –

HYPOCRITICAL FIDDLESTICKS OF SOCIETY –

AS UNDERWORLD’S UNADORNED HONESTY

BUT THROB OF BASIC PRINCIPLE:

ROTATION.

 

E.V.F.L

 

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: ANCESTRY

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
(1874 – 1927)

ANCESTRY

ANCESTRY
DAD WAS CORKSCREW
BOTTLE FAIR MA —
CRIED SHE:
“GEE!
THY SPIRAL-LOFTY BRILLIANCY —
SLICK———”
“LET’S HAVE A CORKING TIME”
SNAPPED HE —
PULLED CORK ———
AND —DAMN HIS PRICK
I’VE GOT THAT TURN IN MEc .

E.V.F.L

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: ONLY ADVENTUROUS ARE RICH

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
(1874 – 1927)

 

ONLY ADVENTUROUS ARE RICH

 

ONLY ADVENTUROUS ARE RICH –

RICH ARE ADVENTUROUS.

SOON AS IN STABLE

CULTURES’ TRADITIONS’ SECURITY

THEY

CEASE SO TO BE –

STAGNATIONGERM WORMS

UNDERGROUND PASSAGE

TO OBLIVION.
 

FLUX
 

LINDBERGH ONLY COULD SPRING

FROM OBSCURE VASTNESS’ REJUVENATED

VIRGIN SOILS’ FERTILE MIXTURE –

VITALY FOCED

TO EXPLORE ITSELF.

 

E.V.F.L

 

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: CONTRADICTORY SPECULATIONS

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

(1874 – 1927)

 

CONTRADICTORY SPECULATIONS

 

CONTRADICTORY SPECULATIONS

ON MY OWN HOOK’S FALLIBILITY

FLUX

MONEY IS SEXENERGY STORED

– AS IS KNOWLEDGE.

COMBINATION: CULTURE.

TIMES HECTIC-PREPATORY BEGET

IMMENSE TURE STIR

– FAKE ABUNDANCE –

CALM:

SIFTING AUTOMACILA FOLLOWS

– INAUGURATING SERENITY

 

E.V.F.L

 

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: CAFÉ DU DÔME

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
(1874 – 1927)

CAFÉ DU DÔME

FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE !
LOOK AT THAT –
MARCELLED –
BE – WHISKERED –
BE – SPATTED –
PATHETIC –
LYMPHATIC –
ESTHETIC-
PIGPINK –
QUAINT –
NATTY –
SAINT KYK!
GARCON?? !
UN PNEUMATIC CROSS – AVEC SUCTIONDISC’S
TOPPED AVEC RUBBER THISTLE WREATH –
S’IL VOUS PLAIT.

E.V.F.L

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