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Tristan Tzara (born Samuel or Samy
Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; April 4 or April 16, 1896 –
December 25, 1963) was a Romanian and Frenchavant-garde poet, essayist and performance
artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic,
composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and
central figures of the anti-establishmentDada movement. Under
the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent
Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolulwith Ion Vinea (with whom he also wrote experimental poetry) and painter Marcel
Janco. During World War I, after briefly collaborating on Vinea's Chemarea, he joined Janco in Switzerland.
There, Tzara's shows at the Cabaret Voltaire and Zunfthaus zur Waag, as well as his poetry and art
manifestos, became a main feature of early Dadaism. His work represented
Dada's nihilisticside, in contrast with the more moderate approach favored by Hugo Ball. After moving to Paris in 1919, Tzara, by then one of the "presidents of
Dada", joined the staff of Littérature magazine, which
marked the first step in the movement's evolution toward Surrealism.
He was involved in the major polemics which led to Dada's split, defending his
principles against André Breton and Francis
Picabia, and, in Romania, against the eclecticmodernism of
Vinea and Janco. This personal vision on art defined his Dadaist plays The Gas
Heart (1921) and Handkerchief of Clouds (1924). A
forerunner of automatist techniques, Tzara eventually
rallied with Breton's Surrealism, and, under its influence, wrote his
celebrated utopianpoem The Approximate Man. During the final part of his career, Tzara combined his humanist and anti-fascistperspective with a
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André Breton (February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966) was a French
writer, poet, and surrealisttheorist, and is best known as the main founder of surrealism.
His writings include the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined
surrealism as pure psychic automatism. BiographyBorn to a family of modest means in Tinchebray(Orne) in Normandy, he
studied medicineand psychiatry.
During World War I he worked in a neurological ward in Nantes, where he
met the spiritual son of Alfred Jarry, Jacques
Vaché, whose anti-social attitude and disdain for established artistic
tradition influenced Breton considerably. Vaché committed suicide at age 24
and his war-time letters to Breton and others were published in a volume
entitled Lettres de guerre (1919), for which Breton
wrote four introductory essays. From Dada to SurrealismIn 1919 Breton founded the review Littérature with Louis
Aragon and Philippe Soupault. He also connected with DadaistTristan
Tzara. In 1924 he was instrumental to the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research. In The Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques),
a collaboration with Soupault, he put the principle of automatic writing into practice. He published
the Surrealist Manifesto in 1924, and
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley , GCB,
born John Rowlands (January 28, 1841 – May 10, 1904), was a Britishjournalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his
search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered
for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr.
Livingstone, I presume?", although there is some question as to
authenticity of this now famous greeting. Biography
Stanley was born in Denbigh, Wales. At the time, his mother, Elizabeth Parry, was nineteen years
old. According to Stanley himself, his father, John Rowlands, was an alcoholic;
there is some doubt as to his true parentage. His parents were unmarried, so his
birth certificate refers to him as a bastard, and the
stigma of illegitimacy weighed heavily upon him all his life. He
was raised by his grandfather until the age of five. When his guardian died,
Stanley stayed at first with cousins and nieces for a short time, but was
eventually sent to St. Asaph Union Workhouse for
the poor, where overcrowding and lack of supervision resulted in frequent abuse
by the older boys. When he was ten, his mother and two siblings stayed for a
short while in this workhouse, without Stanley realizing who they were. He stayed
until the age of 15. After completing an elementary education, he was employed
as a pupil teacher in a National School. In 1859, at the age of 18, he made
his passage to the United States in search of a new life. Upon arriving
in New Orleans, he absconded from his boat.
According to his own declarations, he became friendly with a wealthy trader
named Stanley, by accident: he saw Stanley sitting on a chair outside his store
and asked him if he had any job opening for a person such as himself. However,
he did so in the British style, "Do you want a boy, sir?" As it
happened, the childless man had indeed
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Armand Auxiètre always bathed in the world of the collection.His
grandfather and his father before him constituted, according to time
and discoveries, a collection of many and various objects, ancient books and objects coming from all parts of Africa.During his youth, Armand evolves in a particular world, where he educates his look naturally.Having
crossed several certificates of cabinetmaking, he crosses successfully
his certificate of the jobs of art to the Ecole Boulle, and develops
at the same time his knowledge in african art.The attraction between the african sculpture and Armand Auxiètre is first plastic, immediate, obvious.A love was born, which will be developed in the course of meetings, discoveries and of readings.Soon
the pleasure of being encircled with items becoming too big to resist
the desire to share this passion, Armand takes back the ancient
bookshop of his grandmother, and perpetuates the family presence
initiated in the fifties in 41, street of Verneuil, by creating the
gallery "L'Oeil et la
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