Dear Timothy:
Thank you so deeply much!
(i was the person who brought up Takahashi--one of my favorite poets)--
i wil go look for this! i had no idea this miraculous book existed!
it is a deep pleasure to know others are also lovers of the work of takahashi--
i just came acroos an interetsing quote re the interrelationship of dada and Fluxus--
it is in the collection of essays VISUAL LITERATURE CRITICISM ed ited by Richard Kostelanetz in the series Precisely: 3 4 5 WCPR: 19
(WCPR: West Coast Poetry Reviw) this edition of 'A New Collection" is co-edited with Stephen Scobie came out in 1978
thi is from a piece by Geoffrey Cook called: "Visual Poetry as a Molting"
Cook ends the piece with the ways Fluxus contirbuted to amovement out of the hegemonic art world of the time period begining in the 1940-50s:
Ergo, Expressionism & Syurrealism mixed with indigenous North American aesthetic thinking was to dominate the Western world for two decades. In the '60s the Fluxus group was the first crack in this cultural egg. This movement began to investiage those other trends of Modernism. (Dada, the Futurisms of Italy and Russia; al three suppressed for some time due to poltical reasons in the McCarhy etc era--my note) Out of this initial revolt came concrete poetry in Brazil. During this decade the crack in New York's cultural hegemony has become a rift. Art is & can be created virtually anywhere on the globe. There is no one center. dadaims & Futurism have been reinvestigated in a context that is coming to terms with the technological innovations of the past six decades.. Langauge is further being reinvesitgated struturally & sociologically. As Dick Higgins says : "The word is not dead, it is merely chanigng its skin"
i think it's interesting that Cook notes how Fluxus helps bring back from obsucuirty the enrgies of dadaism and Futurism--it's quitea tribute to Fluxus!--
the book also incluodes a brief one page piece by Bern Poreter, an essay by Dick Higgins and--"Visual Poetry Reflected" by John M. Bennett!
"Bevor der war dada da, dada da war"--Hans Arp
Thank you agin for the Takahshi/Tzara !
--david-baptiste
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