Le Bulletin ça ira: historiographie de la revue d'avant-garde du même nom (1920-1923) et des éditions (Michaux, Pansaers e.a.)
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Neuhuys talks of Dada in Paris (which was in any case its end) and he misses the real departures : Zürich 1916, three of four months after the first number of SIC. Naturally, Dada in Berlin, in 1918, very revolutionary, very determined, is missing, too,...
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Wout Hoeboer: Frommage à Picabia Entering the so-called cultural world, we are still engaged in the same struggle when I read, from the pen of Jacques Lothaire, speaking of the French Academy and the Institute : I say once and fo all get rid of the senile...
Lire la suiteObviously I am not mentioning a great many of the authors in Ça Ira! and, of course, I will be accused of choosing a clear ‘Modernist’ tendency (the word was used at that time), by stressing van Doesburg, Pansaers, Joostens, Neuhuys and if course I am...
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Clément Pansaers. Drawing by Jean-Jacques Gailliard These reflexions come as a result of Ça Ira!, which in time followed Pierre Albert-Birot’s review SIC, already announced the death of Dada, and preceded Surrealism by four years. For this reason, Ça...
Lire la suiteIn this survey, the summing up of ‘Introduction to some poets’, summing up by Paul, also groups Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Paul Morand, in the same descriptive family, which is certainly no mistake. On the other hand,...
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ça ira, 11, February 1921, woodcut by Jan Cockx Of course, I am glossing over a great deal, as my aim is simply t o talk – briefly – of this review with its many strokes of brilliance, as, for instance, in Number 10 in January 1921, from which I extract...
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As the review develops, this kind of articles produces answers, to my mind more direct and purer, too, but before coming to them, I can already give a contradiction, from Neuhuys, in a poem called ‘Ambiance’, which, without theories, is much more lucid,...
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Jumping from page to page of these contrasts, liking contradiction anyway, I find premonitory notes which deserved te be better know when they were written. If somebody smiles at them today, it will be with the superiority of the Invader justifiyng his...
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I have pleasure in quoting entirely, way beyond politics, Paul Joostens’ poem ‘In April’ – a painter and poet practivally unknown outside Belgium, whose importance, at least for the years 1917-1925, is equal to Kurt Schwitters and parallel to the great...
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This particular reflection seems obvious to me when I read: The only thing that interested me fot a moment about the Russians was the Revolution, but it only lasted a faw weeks and now they have the same “bourgeois family” way of thinking as we do here....
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