Dada and the Poetry of the Contemporary Avant-Garde

Hugo Ball , Die Flucht aus der Zeit (Lucerne, 1946 ), 145.

Jean Arp , Jours effeuillés (Paris, 1966 ), 307.

L. Moholy-Nagy , Vision in Motion (Chicago, 1947 ), 10.

Iris Murdoch, Sartre : Romantic Rationalist (London, 1968), 43.

Max Ernst , quoted in Cinquant' anni a Dada : Dada in Italia 1916-1966 [catalogue] , edited by Arturo Schwarz ( Galleria Schwarz: Milan, 1966), 76.

Hans Richter , Dada : Art and Anti-Art (London, 1970 ), 58.

Walter Benjamin , "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ", Illuminations (London, 1970), 239.

Ball , Die Flucht aus der Zeit, 95.

Hans Richter , "Dada and the Film", in Dada : Monograph of a Movement, ed. by Willy Verkauf (London, 1975), 39.

Quoted in Dada 1916-66 [catalogue] (Goethe Institute: London, 1966), 22.

Kurt Schwitters , "Konsequente Dichtkunst", G, no. 3 (June 1924), 45-46. For an English translation, see Richter , Dada : Art and Anti-Art, 147-9.

Kurt Schwitters , Das literarische Werk ( Cologne, 1973- ), i, 200-1, 206.

In Concrete Poetry: An International Anthology, ed. by Stephen Bann (London, 1967), 59.

Werner Schmalenbach , Kurt Schwitters (London , 1970), 188-92.

Kurt Schwitters , 'i', Merz, no. 2 (April 1923). For an English translation, see Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, 126.

Quoted in Richter , Dada : Art and Anti-Art, 89.

See Nicholas Zurbrugg , "Treating the Text", Stereo Headphones, no. 6 (Summer 1974), 3-4.

See Bann , op. cit. (ref. 13), 64-69 and 162-3; also Typewriter Art, ed. by Alan Riddell (London, 1975), 82-86 and 147-8.

Quoted in Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, 103. The following four quotations whose pagination is given in the text come from the same source.

Kurt Schwitters , "Merz" (December 1920), Der Ararat, ii (1921), 5. English trans. in Dadas on Art, ed. by Lucy R. Lippard (New Jersey, 1971), 102.

Arp, Jours effeuillés, 306. The following five quotations whose pagination is given in the text come from the same source.

Quoted in Schmalenbach , Kurt Schwitters, 201.

Hans Arp , "Wegweiser", Wortträume und schwarze Sterne (Wiesbaden , 1953), 6.

Carola Giedion-Welcker , "Work in Progress — A Linguistic Experiment by James Joyce", Transition, no. 19/20 (June 1930), 179.

Tristan Tzara , "dada manifeste sur l'amour faible et l'amour amer", first published in La Vie des lettres, no. 4 (April 1921), 434-43 but quoted here from Tristan Tzara , Lampisteries précédées des sept manifestes dada (Paris, 1963), 64.

Tom Stoppard , Travesties (London, 1975), 17-18.

Tristan Tzara , L'Homme approximatif ( Paris , 1931); translated by Mary Ann Caws as " Approximate Man" in "Approximate Man" and other Writings ( Detroit, 1973), 41-131.

Raoul Hausmann , Courrier Dada (Paris, 1958), 36. The following three quotations whose pagination is given in the text come from the same source.

See, for example Samuel Beckett , Lessness (London, 1969) ; William Burroughs , The Ticket that Exploded ( London, 1968) ; Alain Robbe-Grillet , La Maison de rendez-vous (Paris, 1965 ), translated by A. M. S. Smith as The House of Assignation ( London, 1970).

Ball , Die Flucht aus der Zeit, 80.

F.T. Marinetti , "Zang Tumb Tuuum", in Teoria e invenzione futurista ( Verona 1968), 563.

Hugo Ball , "Karawane", in Richter, Dada: Art and Anti-Art, 8.

Hausmann , Courrier Dada , 59-60.

Typical of such 'noise' and 'breath' poetry are Henri Chopin's "Sol Air" (1961) and François Dufrêne's "Triptycrirythme" (1966), both on Revue-Disque OU, no. 28/29 (1966).

Raoul Hausmann , "bbbb", "Fmsbw" and "Kp'erioum" ( 1918); "Offeah", "Poèmes sans titres" and "Oiseautal" (1919); and "Chanson", "Vali tali" and "baste" (1946), on Revue-Disque OU, no. 26/27 (1966).

Reproduced in Richter, Dada : Art and Anti-Art, 121.

Kurt Schwitters , "Ursonate", Das literarische Werk, i, 214-42. A recording of Schwitters reading the 'scherzo' from this poem is on the L.P. Phonetische Poesie, F 60 379, Luchterhand Schallplatten, Germany.

Kurt Schwitters , letter to Hausmann of 29 March 1947, quoted in Hausmann, Courrier Dada, 129.

Hausmann , Courier Dada , 116.

Isidore Isou , "La Guerre: première symphonie lettrique", Introduction d une nouvelle poésie et d une nouvelle musique ( Paris, 1947), 361-410; Maurice Lemaître , "Lettre rock" (1968), recorded on Phonetische Poesie (ref. 37).

See Jean-Paul Curtay , La Poésie lettriste ( Paris, 1974) and Isidore Isou , "The Creations of Lettrism", TLS, no. 3,262 (3 September 1964), 796-7.

Manuel L. Grossman , Dada, Paradox, Mystification and Ambiguity in European Literature (New York, 1971 ), 156.

Isidore Isou , "De Charles Baudelaire à Isidore Isou", Introduction d une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique, 19-61.

Eugene Jolas , "From Jabberwocky to `Lettrism' ", Transition Forty-Eight, no. 1 (January 1948), 104-20.

Henri Chopin , "Open Letter to Aphonic Musicians", OU, no. 33 (1968), 13.

See Oto Bihalji-Merin , "Time-Light-Motion", in Abstract Art since 1945 , edited by Jean Leymarie ( London, 1971), 257-88.

Philippe Jacottet , "Première note sur la poésie concrète", Invencao (Sao Paulo), no. 2 (1962), 69.

See the illustration of Soto's "Vibration 1" ( 1965) in Edward Lucie-Smith , Art Today (Oxford , 1977), 310.

Öyvind Fahlström , "Manifesto for Concrete Poetry", Hispanic Arts, i, no. 3/4 (Winter/spring 1968), 75.

Eugen Gomringer , "From Line to Constellation", ibid., 68.

Eugen Gomringer , "The Poem as a Functional Object", ibid., 69.

Décio Pignatari , Augusto de Campos, Haraldo de Campos, "Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry", ibid., 72.

Max Bense , "Concrete Poetry", ibid., 74.

Pignatari, de Campos and de Campos, "Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry", 72.

Bense , "Concrete Poetry ", 73.

Siegbert S. Prawer , "Some Recent Language Games", in Essays in German Language, Culture and Society, ed. by Siegbert S. Prawer , R. Hinton Thomas and Leonard Forster (London, 1969), 81; and Martin Seymour-Smith , Guide to Modern World Literature (London, 1973 ), 885.

Hansjörg Mayer , 'f', ? concrete poetry [catalogue] (Stedelijk Museum : Amsterdam. 1970), 68.

Hausmann , Courrier Dada , 49.

Pignatari, de Campos and de Campos, "Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry ", 72.

Gomringer , "From Line to Constellation", 67.

Collected in Bann , op. cit. (ref. 13), 32 and 37.

Collected ibid, 124.

Collected in An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, edited by Emmett Williams (New York, 1967), unpag.

Seiichi Niikuni , "List of Works", in Visual Poems [catalogue] (Whitechapel Gallery: London, 1974), unpag.

Collected in Bann , op. cit. (ref. 13), 151.

Reproduced in Hispanic Arts, i, no. 3/4 (Winter/spring 1968), 209.

Haraldo de Campos, notes to Décio Pignatari's "beba babe coca cola", collected in Williams , An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, unpag.

Augusto de Campos, "luxo/lixo", Hispanic Arts, i, no. 3/4 (Winter/spring 1968), 96.

Ian Hamilton Finlay , letter to Pierre Garnier of 17 September 1963, ibid., 84.

Ernst Jandl's unedited recordings of poems such as "ode auf N" (text in his Laut und Luise (Berlin, 1971), 39-41), appear on the E.P. Laut und Luise : Ernst Jandl liest Sprechgedichte, T 76047, Wagenbachs Quartplatte 2 (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach: Berlin). An electronically edited version of "ode auf N" appears on the L.P. ? concrete poetry, RSC 246 (Stedelijk Museum: Amsterdam, 1970). Bob Cobbing's relatively unedited recording of "Variations on a theme of Tan" (text in Bob Cobbing & Writers Forum, ed. by Peter Mayer (Sunderland, 1974), 24), also appears on the L.P. ? concrete poetry. Cobbing's studio-treated work is exemplified by "Whississippi" (text in Whississippi, Writers Forum Pamphlet 2 (London, 1969), recorded on the L.P. Text Sound Compositions 5, RELP 1074, Fylkingen Records: Stockholm, 1969).

Bengt-Emil Johnson , "Fylkingen's Group for Linguistic Arts and Text-Sound Compositions", Stereo Headphones, no. 7 (Spring 1976), 48.

Isidore Isou employs such sounds in "Lances rompues pour la dame gothique" (1945), text in his Introduction d une nouvelle poésie et d une nouvelle musique, 321, recorded on the E.P. L'Autonomatopek 1 (Opus disque, Éditions Georges Fall: Paris , 1973).

Gil J. Wolman , "Ralentissez les cadences", Jean-Louis Brau, "Turn Back Nightingale" and François Dufrêne , "Crirythme en bref" are all on L'Autonomatopek 1.

Henri Chopin , Audiopoems, TCS 106 (Tangent L.P.: London, 1971). Also Revue-Disque OU, edited by Henri Chopin, nos 20-44 (1964-73).

Johnson , op. cit. (ref. 71), 50.

Brion Gysin , "Statement on the cutup method and permutated poems", in Williams, op. cit. (ref. 63), unpag.

William Burroughs , "An Interview", Paris Review , no. 35 (Fall 1965), 25-26.

William Burroughs , "Valentine Day Reading", Revue-Disque OU, no. 40/41 ( 1972).

Gysin , op. cit. (ref. 76).

Brion Gysin , "I am that I am", in Williams , op. cit. (ref. 63), unpag.; recorded on Revue-Disque OU, no. 20/21 (1964). "Junk is no good baby", in The Exterminator, edited by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin (San Francisco, 1967), 23; recorded on Revue-Disque OU, no. 23/24 ( 1965).

Franz Mon , "Concrete Poetry", Stereo Headphones, no. (Spring 1976), 48.

Bernard Heidsieck , "La Poinçonneuse", Stereo Headphones , no. 7 (Spring 1976), 20-24; recorded on " Trois biopsies" & "Un passe-partout" ( Multi-Techniques L.P. : Paris, 1971 ).

Equally impressive is the Belgian poet Paul de Vree's "Vertigo Gli" (1963), text in Hispanic Arts, i, no. 3/4 (Winter/spring 1968), 178 and 285-6; recorded on Revue-Disque OU, no. 28/29 (1966).

Ian Hamilton Finlay , [untitled statement in exhibition catalogue] ( Axiom Gallery : London, 1968), unpag.

Henri Chopin , "Concrete Poetry?", Stereo Headphones, no. 2/3 (Spring 1970), unpag.

Raoul Hausmann , "Dadaism and Today's Avant-Garde", TLS, no. 3,262 (3 September 1964), 801.

Marcel Janco , letter to Nicholas Zurbrugg from Tel Aviv of 27 December 1972.

Paul Neuhys , "Dada" (1921), reprinted in Sur Paul Neuhys , ed. by Henri Chopin ( Ingatestone, 1977), 26.