Bar Nicanor : the collected writings of Clément Pansaers / translated by Terry Bradford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradford, Terry, (professor), translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pansaers, Clément, 1885-1922.

Pansaers, Clément.

Physical Description:

xxv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Distribution:

New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

Other Title:

Collected writings of Clément Pansaers

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2026]

Summary:

"After entering the literary world under the pseudonym Julius Krekel—a Flemish-language poet of sentimental verse—Clément Pansaers discovered he was to be a father, encountered the legacy of Zhuang Zhou, and proceeded to spend six months meditating on a white wall until he was reborn in 1916 under his own name. “The only interesting thing in life,” he discovered, “is creativity overlapping with chance.” Turning to the French language, Pansaers launched the journal Résurrection and began writing some of the most radical poetry of his era. His new direction would lead almost inevitably to the Dada movement and his move to Paris where his meteoric passage soon heralded Dada’s demise, one that he was the first to announce in the journal issue he devoted to it in Belgium. Bar Nicanor: Collected Writings gathers together all of the reborn Pansaers’s work, including the “Lent Meditations” and Apology for Laziness; the even more radical books published under the banner of Dada, The Pan-Pan in the Butt of the Negro Nude and Bar Nicanor; and the posthumous I Blennorrhage and Programmatic Fermata for Young Orangutan. Also included are the essays he published in various journals, including “DADA and Me,” in which he signaled the end of the Dada movement, and what remains of the novel he had been working on at the end of his life, Lamprido, based on the characters of himself and his good friend, anarchist, and art historian Carl Einstein"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

1962728129

9781962728126

OCLC:

1552038327

Publisher Number:

90104376400