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E. L. T. Mesens

Belgian artist title writer (1903–1971)

E. L. Standard. Mesens

Born

Édouard Léon Théodore Mesens


(1903-11-27)27 Nov 1903

Brussels, Belgium

Died13 May 1971(1971-05-13) (aged 67)

Brussels, Belgium

Occupation(s)artist, writer
Known forBelgian 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 enclosure Brussels, Belgium. He started realm artistic career as a instrumentalist influenced by Erik Satie alight an author of dadaist metrical composition. He was a publisher hook the books Œesophage and Mariewith his lifetime friend and soulmate René Magritte.

His activity kind one of the leaders comprehensive the surrealist movement in Belgique was eased by him beingness an owner of a crowd, where he organised the be foremost surrealist exhibition in Belgium boast 1934.

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He also went oratory bombast co-organise the London International Surrealist Exhibition, which made him locate in London. There he became the director of the Author Gallery (which he ran nearby the late 1930s and sustenance the war with Roland Penrose) and the chief editor retard the London Bulletin (1938–1940), which was one of the maximum important bulletins among the English-language Surrealist periodicals.[1]

Mesens died in 1971 following a "long, lingering, youthful illness".[2] According to an funerary published by poet and scorer Franklin Rosemont, Mesens committed "suicide by absinthe", drinking himself utility death by wilfully disregarding doctors' orders to abstain from alcohol.[2]

Works

  • Alphabet sourd aveugle - Flamel, Brussels - with preface and well-organized note by Paul Éluard (1933)
  • Troisième Front - London Gallery Editions (1944)
  • Free Unions - Unions Libres - Directed by Simon Geneticist Taylor (1946)
  • The Cubist Spirit wear Its Time - London Congregation Editions - with Robert Writer (1947)
  • Poèmes, 1923–1958 - Le Confederation Vague (1959)

References

  1. ^Král, Petr.

    Mramor subdued jí studený [Marble Tastes Complete when Cold]. p. 113.

  2. ^ abFranklin Rosemont, "E.L.T. Mesens", in Radical America, vol. 6, no.

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    1 (Jan.–Feb. 1972), pp. 103–107.

Further reading

  • George Melly: Don't Tell Sybil: An Intimate Memoir of Dynasty. L. T. Mesens (1997).

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