Charles Henri Ford

Charles Henri Ford ( born February 10, 1913 in Brookhaven, Mississippi; † 27 September 2002 in New York City, New York) was an American poet, visual artist and filmmaker. He is referred to as the " most prominent Surrealist America."

Life

After he leave early 1929, the high school ( and founded in the same year his first magazine Blues ) had, he went in 1931 for three years to Paris, where he was living there American artists' colony to Man Ray, Peggy Guggenheim and Djuna Barnes joined. 1933 appeared to be authored jointly with Parker Tyler 's novel The Young and Evil, which was perceived as scandalous and could appear only in Europe. For poetry collection The Garden of Disorder (1938 ) William Carlos Williams wrote a preface.

1940 Ford at the 1939 immigrant surrealist artist Kurt Seligmann ( 1900-1962 ) was attentive and gave him an opportunity to be published in the yearbook of the literary journal New Directions in Pose & Poetry his essay " Terrestrial Sun ," which deals with the anthropocentric concept of Hermeticism and thus touches the occult themes.

From 1940 to 1947 Ford published the art and literature magazine View, where he mixed illustrations by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte with lyrics by Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles. André Breton gave him the only one ever published in an American magazine interview. He was a friend of Gertrude Stein, whom he visited in Paris, Edith Sitwell, who wrote an introduction to his collection of poems Sleep In a Nest of Flames, Jean Cocteau, André Masson and René Crevel.

1955 showed the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, his photographs, as a painter in Paris in 1956, Ford had his first solo exhibition. The preface to the catalog comes from Cocteau. After a long stay in Paris, returned to New York, he joined in 1962 the just burgeoning movement of Pop Art and the emergent group of experimental filmmakers to Jonas Mekas at.

His prominent role in the establishment of the European " counter-culture ", namely of Surrealism in the United States is indisputable, and he also took in American art circles a few important function. So he was the one who introduced Andy Warhol in the early 1960s, the avant-garde filmmaker and poet Marie Menken and recommended the young poetry writer Gerard Malanga as assistants to him.

Writings

  • ( with Parker Tyler ): The Young And The Evil. The Obelisk Press, Paris 1933
  • A Pamphlet of Sonnets Caravel Press, Majorca 1936
  • The Garden of Disorder New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. , 1937.
  • ABC's. Press of J. A. Decker Prairie City, Ill., 1940.
  • The Overturned Lake. Little Man Press, Cincinnati, 1941.
  • The Human Microscope. Hemispheres, no. 1, Summer 1943. Brooklyn. 26 p.
  • Charles Henri Ford (ed.): A Night with Jupiter: And Other Fantastic Stories. View Editions, Vanguard Press, New York 1945. 128 S.
  • Poems for Painters. View Editions, New York 1945
  • The Half - Thoughts: The Distances of Pain. Prospero Pamphlet, no. 1, QVS Press, New York 1947. S. 10.
  • Sleep in a Nest of Flames. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. , 1949. S. 64.
  • Marquette for Spare Parts. Vassily Papachrysanthou, A New ViewBook ​​, Athens 1966.
  • Silver Flower Coo. Kulchur Press, New York 1968
  • Edward B. Germain (ed.), Charles Henri Ford: Flag of Ecstasy: Selected Poems. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles 1972
  • 7 [ Seven ] Poems. Bardo Matrix, Kathmandu ( Napal ) 1974. S. 20.
  • Special Effects. Cherry Valley Editions, Cherry Valley, NY, 1979
  • Om Krishna, Vol I-III. Cherry Valley Editions, Cherry Valley, NY, 1979; 1981; 1982
  • ( with Reepak Shakya, Indra Tamang ): Handshake from Heaven. Handshake Press. Paris 1986. 164 p.
  • Out of the Labyyrinth: Selected Poems. City Lights, San Francisco 1991
  • Water from a Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957. Turtle Point Press, New York 2001
  • ( with Indra Tamang ): Operation Minotaur: Haikus and Collages. Shiva Publ Stan, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2006
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