Clément Pansaers ( 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. Events January January 4 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside. January 20 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster. January 26 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum February February 5 - King Leopold II... 1885- 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events January 7 - Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 10 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann... 1922) was the main proponent of the Dadaism or Dada is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature (mainly poetry), theatre and graphic design. The movement was, among other things, a protest against the barbarism of the War and what Dadaists believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art... Dada movement in Belgium. He began writing poetry in 1916 after abandoning his career as an Egyptologist. Along with several members of the Brussels A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. It is sometimes used to refer to people or actions that are novel or experimental, particularly with respect to the arts and culture. Avant... avant-garde circle, he founded the review Résurrection, which published early texts by Carl Einstein, Pierre Jean Jouve, Franz Werfel, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1940 Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 - August 26, 1945) was a German language novelist, playwright, and poet. Biography Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), he was a contemporary and colleague of Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Martin Buber, and other... Franz Werfel, and others. His first properly "Dadaist" work, Pan-Pan au Cul du Nu Nègre was published in 1920. This pamphlet, along with Bar Nicanor (1921), was read and admired by figures like James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, and is widely considered one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his short story collection Dubliners (1914), and for his novels A Portrait of... James Joyce, Ezra Pound in 1913. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972) was a poet, musician and critic who, along with T. S. Eliot, was one of the major figures of the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist movements... Ezra Pound, Theo Van Doesburg, Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, he was educated there at the École des Beaux... Francis Picabia and André Breton ( February 18, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French writer, poet, and surrealist theorist. His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as pure psychic automatism. Born into modest origins in Tinchebray ( Orne) in Normandy, he studied medicine and psychiatry. During... André Breton. Pansaers moved to Paris in 1921, where he took part in Dada manifestations until his early death from Hodgkin's Disease.

Bibliography

• Le Pan-Pan au Cul du Nu Nègre (Brussels: Editions Alde, 1920)
• Bar Nicanor (Brussels: Editions AIO, 1921)
• L'apologie de la paresse (Antwerp: Ca Ira!, 1922)
• Bar Nicanor et autres textes dada, edited by Marc Dachy (Paris: Lebovici/Champ Libre, 1986)
• Pan-Dada: The Writings of Clement Pansaers, edited by Michael Sanchez with a preface by Marc Dachy, forthcoming.

Links

Facsimiles of Pansaers's three published books can be found on the International Dada Archive website at http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/collection.htm