Charles Sirato

Charles Sirato
Born(1905-01-26)26 January 1905
Újvidék, Serbia
Died1 January 1980(1980-01-01) (aged 74–75)
Budapest, Hungary
Occupation
  • Poet
  • art theorist
  • translator
NationalityHungarian

Charles Sirato (26 January 1905, in Újvidék – 1 January 1980, in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet, art theorist, and translator. He most famously authored the Dimensionist manifesto.

Life

Pre-1930

Dimensionist manifesto

In 1936 in Paris, Charles Tamkó Sirató published his Manifeste Dimensioniste,[1] which described how

the Dimensionist tendency has led to:

  1. Literature leaving the line and entering the plane.
  2. Painting leaving the plane and entering space.
  3. Sculpture stepping out of closed, immobile forms.
  4. …The artistic conquest of four-dimensional space, which to date has been completely art-free.

The manifesto was signed by many prominent modern artists worldwide. Yervand Kochar, Hans Arp, Francis Picabia, Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay and Marcel Duchamp amongst others added their names in Paris, then a short while later it was endorsed by artists abroad including László Moholy-Nagy, Joan Miró, David Kakabadze, Alexander Calder, and Ben Nicholson.[1]

List of works

Literature

  • Manifeste Dimensioniste, 1936
  • Az Élet tavaszán, 1921
  • Le Planisme, 1936
  • Kiáltás, 1942
  • A három űrsziget, 1969
  • A Vízöntő-kor hajnalán, 1969
  • Tengereczki Pál, 1970
  • A hegedű vőlegénye, 1971
  • Pinty és Ponty, 1972
  • Kozmogrammok, 1975
  • Tengereczki hazaszáll, 1975
  • Szélkiáltó, 1977
  • Jövőbúvárok, 1980
  • Összegyűjtött versei I., 1993

References

  1. ^ a b Sirató, Charles Tamkó (1936). "Dimensionist Manifesto" (PDF). Paris. Retrieved 20 March 2016.