Jan 22, 2015: Initial Avant-Garde reading List

General Surveys of European movements:

Dada
Hugo Ball, Tenderenda
Dada Manifesto, 1916
Dada Comes to Town?
Tristan Tzara, Manifesto(1918)
The Gas Heart, Play
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara (2014)
*The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Robert Motherwell*

Francis Picabia, I am a beautiful monster (?)

Uncanny Automata, Sue Taylor (?)

Futurism?
Manifesto, Marinetti
Marinetti, Mafarka

German Expressionism
Gottfried Benn
Georg Trakl
Heym

Surrealists and others

Paul Eluards poetry?

*Surreal Lives, Ruth Brandon, 1999

And any Sleeping Fits writing/theory/accounts

Desnos trance online column/series

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/occultural-studies-column/period-sleeping-
fits

*Aragon's "Wave of Dreams," sleeping fits account

http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/papersofsurrealism/journal1/acrobat_files/d
eMuth.pdf
Aragon, Paysan de Paris

The Somnambulists? ( 2008 ) Collection of essays and photos from Pierre

Janet, Breton, Aragon on hysterics and trance installation?

*Motherwell, Duchamp, Masson, etc, Automatic drawing, Wolfgang Robert

Paalen and Dyn in Mexico (1940s 1960s).

*Dali on "Critical Paranoic" Method and Joseph Cornell (US artist who used
this method?), Robert Motherwell, American artist and theorist
 *Carrouges, Les Machines Clibataires

De Certau, on Bachelor Machines/ Duchamp

Foster, Compulsive Beauty ? (1995)

Ren Daumal and Le Gran Jeu

Alfred Jarry, Pataphysics
(+ Gurdjieff )
http://www.axonjournal.com.au/issue-6/guru-and-poet

(?) Emphasis on: Trance and Alternative states of poetic production (automatism,
critical paranoic (dali), Mysticism (Bataille?), Thresholds to
visions/genius/production/anti-poetry
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Of Further/Peripheral/Additional Interest:

Pierre Janet: The Mental state of Hystericals (1977)

Breton's Ghost (Breton in Latin America)?

*NEO-AVANT-GARDE (Avant Garde Critical Studies 20) Hardcover December 20,

2006, by David Hopkins (Ed.) (Author), Editorial Assistant: Anna Katharina Schaffner
(Author) (1950s-1970s, Connection to Brazil)

*Amy Hollywood: Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands
of History (Religion and Postmodernism) (2002)

Allan Stoekl: Politics, Writing and Mulilation (Bataille, Blanchot)

P.Soupault, Last Nights In Paris, trans William Carlos Williams?

Edmond Jabes, Book of Dialogue, Book of Margins

Bataille? Michaux?

Latin American Poets (to look up)

[peru?]
Carlos Oquendo de Amats 5 metros de poemas

Cesar Moro
Scholarship by: Yolanda Wesphalen, [Mariela Dreyfus, Poet, NYU]

Martn Adn

Alejandra Pizarnik

Other Artists:
Phillip Lamantia, American b1927, published by Breton in VVV
http://hexagonocarmesi.blogspot.com/2014/08/philip-lamantia-collected-poems-
of.html

Gisle Prassinos (14 year old, published?)

Gherasim Luca, Romanian b1913, French speaking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gherasim_Luca

As per Film Rev in LA class: read Mariategui texts? Political work and relation to
vanguardias?

Intellectual "pillars" necessary to represent theoretical interests as part of

dissertation:

Decoloniality, Translation,