Joan Brossa
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 Joan Brossa Photo taken September 10, 1998. |
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| Birth name | Joan Brossa i Cuervo |
| Born | January 19, 1919 Barcelona,  Catalonia |
| Died | December 30, 1998 (aged 79) Barcelona, Catalonia |
| Nationality |  Spanish |
| Field | Poetry, Theatre, Sculpture, Plastic Arts, Graphic Design |
| Movement | surrealism, dada, Dau al Set, |
Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Catalan pronunciation: [ʒuˈam ˈbɾɔsə]) (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the leading early proponents of visual poetry in Catalan literature. Although he was in the vanguard of the post-war poets he also wrote formally perfect sonnets, saphic odes and sestinas. His creative work embraced every aspect of the arts: cinema, theatre (more of 360 pieces), music, cabaret, the para-theatrical arts, magic and the circus.
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[edit] Life and work
For him, expression had priority over content, and he managed to give his poetry the appearance of plays on words. His lyrical work is connected with the theatre while the totality of his literature (more of seventy books, all in Catalan language) is impregnated with the theatrical dimension because he always had a broad and interdisciplinary vision of culture, the arts in general and the performance arts in particular, this being expressed in his literary and plastic works which often appeared as satirical, cutting, ironic and critical or, on other occasions, irreverent yet playful. In the latter years of his creative life, he received a number of awards such as the National Prize for the Plastic Arts (1992), the National Theatre Prize (1998) and the Unesco Picasso Medal. He has been posthumously awarded doctorate honoris causa from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1999). He was a member and then Honorary Member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Catalan Language Writers). His plastic poetry, obviously placed beyond all linguistic borders, already is recognized as a world reference.
He collaborated in the foundation of the Espai Escenic Joan Brossa (The Joan Brossa Theatrical Space) in the Born district of Barcelona, this being the initiative of the theatre director and actor Hermann Bonnín and the magician Hausson, who continue along the theatrical lines espoused by Brossa.
[edit] Dau al Set
Members of Dau-al-Set include:
- Joan Brossa
- Antoni Tàpies
- Joan Ponç
- Arnau Puig
- Modest Cuixart
- Joan-Josep Tharrats
- Juan-Eduardo Cirlot
Brossa's sculptural typography in Barcelona is featured in Eye magazine (No. 37, Vol. 10, Autumn 2000) along with the work of Josep Maria Subirachs.[1]
[edit] External links
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- Official website of "Fundació Joan Brossa" (Catalan) (Spanish) (English). This foundation has been created by the poet himself and is the only current owner of Brossa's copyright.
- Joan Brossa in LletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalonia) (English) (Spanish) (Catalan)
- Page on Joan Brossa, in the AELC (English) (Spanish) (Catalan). AELC, Association of Writers in Catalan Language, from which Brossa was a member of honor.
- Works of Joan Brossa (Catalan) Full and updated lists of his published essential works, his complementary editions, catalogues of his exhibitions and translations of his works to other languages.
- Bibliography on Joan Brossa (Catalan), very full.
- Virtual Exhibition "Els entra-i-surts de Brossa" (Catalan). Interactive website edited by lletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalonia and Fundació Joan Brossa).
- English translations of Brossa's The Poet Finds a Theme and Time
- Private website Joan Brossa.org
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Eye, Number 37, Volume 10, Autumn 2000.
