Clément Pansaers was the main proponent of the Dada

Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...

 movement in Belgium

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He began writing poetry in 1916 after abandoning his career as an Egyptologist. Along with several members of the Brussels

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 avant-garde

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 circle, he founded the review Résurrection, which published early texts by Carl Einstein

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, Pierre Jean Jouve

Pierre Jean Jouve

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, Franz Werfel

Franz Werfel

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, and others.

His first properly "Dadaist" work, Pan-Pan au Cul du Nu Nègre was published in 1920. This pamphlet, along with Bar Nicanor (1921), was read and admired by figures like James Joyce

James Joyce

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, Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

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, Theo Van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg

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, Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

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 and André Breton

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Pansaers moved to Paris in 1921, where he took part in Dada manifestations until his early death from Hodgkin's disease.

External links

• Facsimiles of Pansaers's three published books, on the International Dada Archive website
• Pan-Pan at the Negro Nude's Ass by Clément Pansaers, translated by Michael Hays Sanchez