Dada & Modernist Magazines
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- IMAGE CREDITS
banner: detail from 'Mechanischer Kopf' (Der Geist unserer Zeit), 1918 [Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
cover 75HP in Plural 3 (1999) www.plural-magazine.com/?edition_id=34.
75HP
DESCRIPTION
- Edited by Ilarie Voronca, Stéphane Roll and Victor Brauner.
- N° 1 (October 1924). Only one issue published.
- Published in Bucharest.
- Includes 'Pictopoezie, inventata de Victor Brauner & Ilarie Voronca'.
- FACSIMILES/REPRINTS
- printed
- 75 HP / Ilarie Voronca ... and others; préface de Marina Vanci-Perahim (Éditions Jean-Michel Place : Paris 1993).
- SECONDARY LITERATURE
- Carole Benaiteau
'75HP', in Dada (Editions du Centre Pompidou : Paris 2005) 60-61.
- Irina Carabas
'Representing Bodies. Victor Brauner's Hybrids, Fragments and Mechanisms', in Nordlit 21 (Spring 2007) 229-240.
- Vincentiu Ilutiu
'Voronca Between Tradition And Innovation' / translated from the French by Monica Voiculescu, in Plural Magazine N° 3 (1999).
- Steven A. Mansbach
'The "foreignness" of classical modern art in Romania', in Art Bulletin 80, No. 3 (September 1998) 534-554 [JSTOR stable URL www.jstor.org/stable/3051303]
- [abstract] Modern art emerged in Romania under circumstances foreign historically, politically, and culturally to those prevailing in the industrialized West. Moreover, the artists responsible for creating an originary Dada and a singular form of Constructivism, among other modern expressions, were perceived as foreigners in their own land. The present study offers an analysis of the aesthetic, ethnic, and social contexts that resulted in a singular history of modern art in Romania, one that would play a decisive role in the evolution of modern art in the West.
'Moments in the Romanian Literary Avant-Garde' (last update September 1999) [visited 03/2009].
- Andrei Oisteanu
'The Romanian Avant-Garde And Visual Poetry', in Exquisite Corpse. A Journal of Letters and Life. The original study was published for the exhibition 'Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire = Dada Est? Romanii de la Cabaret Voltaire', curated by Adrian Notz, Raimund Meyer, and Juri Steiner for the Cabaret Voltaire Dadahaus, Zurich (20.09.06 - 22.02.07).
Krisztina Passuth
'Die rumänische Avantgarde. Tristan Tzara, Marcel Iancu : Ion Vinea und Contimporanul, M.H. Maxy und Integral, Victor Brauner und 75HP, Constantin Brâncusi', in Krisztina Passuth, Treffpunkte der Avantgarden Ostmitteleuropa 1907-1930 / [aus dem Ungarischen, Anikó Harmath] (Balassi Kiadó etc. : Budapest etc. 2003) 218-244.
- Petre Raileanu
'L'Avant-garde roumaine', in Le Rameau d'or N° 2 (Bucarest 1995) 30-37.
- Petre Raileanu
'Victor Brauner' / translated from the French by Monica Voiculescu, in Plural Magazine N° 3 (1999).
- Mariana and Gheorghe Vida
'Mattis Teutsch and the Romanian Avant-garde', online text to the exhibition 'Mattis Teutsch and Der Blaue Reiter' in the Hungarian National Galley, Budapest (14 March - 24 June, 2001) and in the Haus der Kunst, Munich (5 July - 7 October, 2001) [visited 03/09].
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With the poet Ilarie Voronca (1903-1946) Victor Brauner (1903-1966) co-founded the Dadaist review 75HP in Bucharest. He went to Paris in 1925 but returned to Bucharest a year later. In Bucharest in 1929 Brauner was associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist reviews Punct, Integral and Unu. In 1930 Brauner settled in again and befriended with Constantin Brancusi. There he met Yves Tanguy, who introduced him to the Surrealists by 1933. André Breton wrote an enthusiastic introduction to the catalogue for Brauner’s first Parisian solo show at the Galerie Pierre in 1934. In 1935 Brauner returned to Bucharest, where he remained until 1938. That year he moved to Paris, lived briefly with Tanguy, and painted a number of works featuring distorted human figures with mutilated eyes.
At the outset of World War II Brauner fled to the South of France, where he maintained contact with other Surrealists in Marseille. Later he sought refugee status in Switzerland; unable to obtain suitable materials there, he improvised an encaustic from candle wax and developed a graffito technique. Brauner returned to Paris in 1945. He was included in the 'Exposition internationale du surréalisme' at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1947. His postwar painting incorporated forms and symbols based on Tarot cards, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and antique Mexican codices. In the fifties Brauner traveled to Normandy and Italy, and his work was shown at the Venice Biennale in 1954 and in 1966. Victor Brauner died in Paris on March 12, 1966.
- TEXT CREDITS
Based on the wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Brauner.
- IMAGE CREDITS
Victor Brauner, Selfportrait (1923) [Collection unknown]