Het Overzicht
 Het Overzicht n° 14 (December 1922) | |
| Editor | |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Founder | Michel Seuphor |
| First issue | June 1921 |
| Final issue | February 1925 |
| Country | Belgium |
| Based in | Antwerp |
| Language | Dutch |
| OCLC | 5787201 |
Het Overzicht (Dutch: the Survey) was a Dutch language literary magazine published in Antwerp, Belgium, between 1921 and 1925. Until its cessation in 1925 it was the major avant-garde magazine in the country and published a total of 24 issues.[1]
History and profile
[edit]Het Overzicht was first published in June 1921.[2][3] The magazine was subtitled as Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Mensheid.[2] Michel Seuphor was the founder of the magazine.[1][4] Geert Pynenburg was also functional in the foundation.[5] Its headquarters was in Antwerp.[6][7]
During its early years Het Overzicht was pro-Flemish.[5] Then it became a modernist periodical of European stature[5] and adopted a constructivist,[6] dadaist and avant-garde approach.[8] It published poems in their original languages.[3] The magazine published a special issue on Italian futurism in December 1922.[9] Michel Seuphor and Jozef Peeters were the editors of Het Overzicht of which regular contributors included Geert Grub, Georges Walz, Alice Nahon,[5] Victor Brunclair, Leo Steiner, Gaston Burssens and Michel Seuphor.[2]
The last issue of Het Overzicht was published in February 1925.[2] All issues of the magazine are archived in the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Rajesh Heynickx; Jan De Maeyer (2010). The Maritain Factor: Taking Religion Into Interwar Modernism. Leuven: Leuven University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-90-5867-714-3.
- ^ a b c d e "Het Overzicht". Dada Companion. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ^ a b Francis Mus (2008). "Internationalization in Belgian Literary Periodicals after WWI. Outline of a Research Project" (PDF). In Pieter Boulogne (ed.). Translation and Its Others. Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Seminar in Translation Studies 2007.
- ^ "Michel Seuphor Biography". Whitford Fine Art. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Manu van der Aa, 'Love is what I have loved'. The life of Alice Nahon (1896-1933)" (PDF). University of Groningen. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ^ a b Francis Mus; Hans vandevoorde (2013). "'Streetscape of new districts permeated by the fresh scent of cement': Brussels, The avant-garde, and internationalism". In Peter Brooker; et al. (eds.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880–1940. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
- ^ Michael White (February 2006). "'Dreaming in the Abstract': Mondrian, Psychoanalysis and Abstract Art in the Netherlands". The Burlington Magazine. 148 (1235): 106. JSTOR 20074299.
- ^ Ellen Lupton; Elaine Lustig Cohen (1996). Letters from the Avant-Garde: Modern Graphic Design. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-56898-052-2.
- ^ Günter Berghaus (2014). "Futurism and Modernist Magazines". In Günter Berghaus (ed.). International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Vol. 4. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter. p. 52. doi:10.1515/futur-2014-0010. ISBN 9783110334104.
External links
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