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Tuesday, November 08, 2005
THE CREATIVE ACT
Marcel Duchamp presenting a paper to the American Federation of Arts at Houston, Texas, in April 1957
The Creative Act
Sub Rosa: 1994
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L'AMIRAL CHERCHE UNE MAISON A LOUER
tone poem by Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Richard Huelsenbeck performed by Trio Exvoco
Futurism & Dada Reviewed
Sub Rosa: 1996
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DIE SONATE IN URLAUTEN
Kurt Schwitters (final recording, 1932)
Futurism & Dada Reviewed
Sub Rosa: 1996
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RELATION D'UN REVE (DESCRIPTION OF A DREAM)
Robert Desnos (recorded for Radio Luxembourg in 1938)
Surrealism Reviewed
LTM : 2002
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INTERVIEW
Lee Miller & Roland Penrose (on the Ona Munson radio show in 1946)
Surrealism Reviewed
LTM : 2002
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Marcel Duchamp pioneered the 'readymade.'
Tristan Tzara founded the original Dada group, attempting to protect Dada's anarchic spirit against the endless manifestos and codifications of Andre Breton.
Marcel Janco was a Romanian artist who collaborated with Tzara on the magazine Simbolul and the Cabaret Voltaire.
Richard Huelsenbeck helped found a Dada group in Berlin.
Kurt Schwitters invented Merzbau, now known as installations.
Robert Desnos was an early star of the Surrealist movement, although he would be expelled, for being too mainstream, in 1930.
Lee Miller worked as a war correspondent for Vogue during the second world war; she was also a muse and collaborator for Man Ray and married Roland Penrose.
Roland Penrose is credited with introducing Surrealism to Britain; he organized a massive International Surrealist Exhibition in 1936.
English translation of "Relation d'un Reve" from the Surrealism Reviewed liner notes:
Suddenly I found myself in a strange country where the wind blows violently ... We were a large group singing as we marched ... The others were moving very fast. As far as I was concerned, I couldn't keep up the pace in spite of my efforts: "Wait for me, wait for me!" Suddenly, before us, there were ... "But what are these ugly beasts? Hippos? Yes! Hippopotami! Wow! This is unheard of!" They all began to flee. I couldn't move my legs. All of a sudden (a big shriek): I was stamping on Max Remier, who was lying on the ground, 30 meters long and covered with spots like a giraffe's body. The two hippos rushed toward us, and just at the moment when they were going to crush us, I saw, from behind a tree, a surprising procession of every wild beast in the world: a genuine menagerie. But at that precise moment, a storm rose up: the wind, the rain, the thunderstorm made the wild beasts flee ... The storm had become a music storm, the forest a concert hall. There was applause, yet ther was nobody in the room. The applause became deafening: one would have believed that it was a fusillade ... "Help! Help!" "Come in here, you'll be safe, come in but please come in!" It was the usherette of the concert hall who was pushing me into a padded box. The box was a concrete shelter where I found all the spectators piled onto one another like sardines. Below us, the hall was collapsing, the fusillade went on. In the shelter everybody was complaining of suffocation. "Help! Give me some air, please!" I was myself about to suffocate when I woke up, panting, with a pillow over my head.Labels: brian
posted by Brian
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