This volume contains Tristan Tzara's famous manifestos, which first appeared between 1916 and 1921 and became essential texts of the modern movement and models for Breton's Surrealist manifestos. Art for Tzara was both deadly serious and a game, and the playfulness of his character is apparent not only in his polemic, which often uses dadaist typography, but in the delightful drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. In addition, this volume also contains Tzara's Lampisteries - articles that throw light on various art forms contemporary with his own work, at a time when art, weary of the old certainties, turned into subjective and often abstract forms, favouring the reality of the mind over that of the senses.

About the Author

Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) was a French poet, literary terrorist and catalyst, a delightful entertainer and a political revolutionary, who founded Dada in Zurich during the First World War.

Reviews

""Tristan Tzara was like me, like Socrates, like Chateaubriand, a very small, fat, and very ugly man, but with incredible charm!" --Fernando Arrabal, author, " Guernica and Other Plays