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Portrait de Christian Dotremont

Christian Dotremont

Christian Dotremont, born December 12, 1922 in Tervuren in Belgium, and died August 20, 1979 in Buizingen, is a Belgian painter and poet, co-founder of the CoBrA movement, famous for its logograms.


Resources

BNF page of Christian Dotremont

Greatness and tenuity of poetry - Waiting for Nadeau

Page of Chritian Dotremont - CGP

The works of Christian Dotremont at the Center Pompidou

Christian Dotremont, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Christian Dotremont – A Life, a Work: writing words as they move (France Culture, 2002)

Dotremont | Painter-Poet, video

The CoBrA movement


Bibliography of texts published in the NRF

The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Christian Dotremont, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.


Notes by Christian Dotremont

These texts by Christian Dotremont may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.

  1. Matta, 1955-11-01, Notes : les arts
  2. L'inversion du sujet dans la prose contemporaine, par Robert Le Bidois (D'Artrey), 1956-03-01, Notes : les essais
  3. Le Malfaiteur, par Julien Green (Plon), 1956-10-01, Notes : le roman
  4. Histoire de ne pas rire, par Paul Nougé (Les Lèvres nues), 1957-08-01, Notes : la poésie

Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)

This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.