Arp, Jean - Armine Kotin (essay date 1977)
Armine Kotin (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: “Jean Arp, Poet and Artist,” in Dada Surrealism, Vol. 7, 1977, pp. 109-20.
[In the following essay, Kotin examines the relationship between Arp's poetry and his visual art.]
L'air monte les couleurs le quittent. La terre perd ses bourgeons blancs. La pompe à mots ne marche plus. Les bouquets ont cessé de rêver.
Jours effeuillés, p. 531
Although famous as an artist and sculptor, Jean Arp is not yet considered a major French poet, and this in spite of the excellent collection of his works published by Marcel Jean and titled Jours effeuillés.1 The French poetry has never been the object of complete and in-depth analysis. Nevertheless, its importance as a contribution to the development and evolution of French poetry since the Surrealists is incontestable. Although there is a study of his German poetry,2 not all of the verbal techniques for...
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