Cinéma calendrier du coeur abstrait: maisons (Collection Dada)
Artist: Jean Arp (French, 1886-1966)
Publisher: Au sans pareil, Paris, 1920
Author: Tristan Tzara (French (born Romania), 1896-1963)
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
Book: H: 10 1/16 in. (256 mm); W: 8 1/4 in. (210 mm); Depth: 11/16 in. (18 mm)
Page: H: 9 15/16 in. (252 mm); W: 8 1/8 in. (206 cm)
Medium: Original prints: 19 woodcuts
Text: letterpress
Paper: cream wove rag paper watermarked: Giorgio Adamo Beckh in Norimberga
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.208
Label Text:This collection of poems is illustrated by 19 woodcuts by Arp. The book is an important document of the Dada movement.
Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara were among the founders of Dada in Zurich during the War. In this collection of Tzara's poems, Arp's woodcuts are shifting, organic, "bio-morphic" shapes that grew from his pen and ink drawings of bits of nature: "I simplified these forms and united their essences in fluid ovals …like nature, ordered according to the laws of chance." Responding to the war, Arp searched, as he recalled, "for an elementary art that would … save humankind from the furious folly of these times."
Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara were among the founders of Dada in Zurich during the War. In this collection of Tzara's poems, Arp's woodcuts are shifting, organic, "bio-morphic" shapes that grew from his pen and ink drawings of bits of nature: "I simplified these forms and united their essences in fluid ovals …like nature, ordered according to the laws of chance." Responding to the war, Arp searched, as he recalled, "for an elementary art that would … save humankind from the furious folly of these times."
DescriptionHans (Jean) Arp French (born Alsace), 1887-1966 CINÉMA CALENDRIER DU COEUR ABSTRAIT. MAISONS (CINEMA CALENDAR OF THE ABSTRACT HEART: HOUSES) Text by Tristan Tzara (born Samuel Rosenstock) Paris: Au sans pareil, 1920 Woodcut.
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