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POETRY FOR THE FIVE SENSES (excerpt) by Karel Teige translated by David Vichnar (forthcoming in Prague Poetics: from 1920 to the Present, Litteraria Pragensia) In lieu of the old categories of art, corresponding to the higher aesthetic senses (sight and hearing), to man’s intellectual and practical needs which are today better served by other … Continue reading
David Vichnar reviews GEORGES BATAILLE’S LOUIS XXX (translated & introduced by Stuart Kendall, Equus Press, 2013). Image: J.-A. Boiffard, Papier colant et mouches, 1930. Illustration for George Bataille’s article “L’esprit moderne et le jeu des transpositions,” Documents, 1930. No.8, p. 488. Typically of this most untypical writer, George Bataille’s Louis XXX collects two textually … Continue reading
Republished from Louis Armand, The Organ-Grinder’s Monkey: Culture after the Avant-Garde (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2013) originally published in Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between (ed. Peter Cockelbergh; LPB, 2011). About half-way through his 2005 lecture on “The Seamlessly Nomadic Future of Collage,” Pierre Joris quotes Picasso to the effect that If a piece of … Continue reading
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