avant-garde

Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. 

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)

Antonin Artaud was a French dramatist and poet, also actor and theatre director. He is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde and he is best known for conceptualizing a Theatre of Cruelty.

Dino Campana (1885-1932)

Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. He only published a book of poetry, Canti Orfici (Orphic Songs). His wild and erratic personality and his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo set him as an Italian example of a poète maudit.