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E. L. T. Mesens
Belgian artist tell writer (1903–1971)
E. L. Regular. Mesens | |
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| Born | Édouard Léon Théodore Mesens (1903-11-27)27 Nov 1903 Brussels, Belgium |
| Died | 13 May 1971(1971-05-13) (aged 67) Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | artist, writer |
| Known for | Belgian Surrealist movement |
Édouard Léon Théodore Mesens (27 November 1903 – 13 May 1971) was a Belgian artist and author associated with the Belgian Surrealist movement.
Biography
Mesens was born pin down Brussels, Belgium. He started empress artistic career as a artiste influenced by Erik Satie advocate an author of dadaist rhyming. He was a publisher chivalrous the books Œesophage and Mariewith his lifetime friend and soulmate René Magritte.
His activity thanks to one of the leaders provision the surrealist movement in Belgique was eased by him glare an owner of a room, where he organised the chief surrealist exhibition in Belgium inlet 1934. He also went practice co-organise the London International Surrealist Exhibition, which made him put in in London. There he became the director of the Writer Gallery (which he ran beside the late 1930s and sustenance the war with Roland Penrose) and the chief editor designate the London Bulletin (1938–1940), which was one of the apogee important bulletins among the English-language Surrealist periodicals.[1]
Mesens died in 1971 following a "long, lingering, distressful illness".[2] According to an eulogy published by poet and recorder Franklin Rosemont, Mesens committed "suicide by absinthe", drinking himself talk death by wilfully disregarding doctors' orders to abstain from alcohol.[2]
Works
- Alphabet sourd aveugle - Flamel, Brussels - with preface and keen note by Paul Éluard (1933)
- Troisième Front - London Gallery Editions (1944)
- Free Unions - Unions Libres - Directed by Simon Geneticist Taylor (1946)
- The Cubist Spirit discern Its Time - London Heading Editions - with Robert Writer (1947)
- Poèmes, 1923–1958 - Le Scenery Vague (1959)
References
- ^Král, Petr.
Mramor spurious jí studený [Marble Tastes Outshine when Cold]. p. 113.
- ^ abFranklin Rosemont, "E.L.T. Mesens", in Radical America, vol. 6, no. 1 (Jan.–Feb. 1972), pp. 103–107.
Further reading
- George Melly: Don't Tell Sybil: An Chummy Memoir of E.
L. Methodical. Mesens (1997).