Het Overzicht

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Het Overzicht
Het Overzicht - december 1922.jpg
Het Overzicht n° 14 (December 1922)
EditorMichel Seuphor
Jozef Peeters
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FounderMichel Seuphor
First issueJune 1921
Final issueFebruary 1925
CountryBelgium
Based inAntwerp
LanguageDutch
OCLC5787201

Het Overzicht (meaning the Survey in English) was a Dutch language literary magazine published in Antwerp, Belgium, between 1921 and 1925. During its existence the magazine published a total of 24 issues.

History and profile[]

Het Overzicht was first published in June 1921.[1][2] The magazine was subtitled as Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Mensheid.[1] Michel Seuphor was the founder of the magazine.[3][4] Geert Pynenburg was also functional in the foundation.[5] Its headquarters was in Antwerp.[6]

During its early years Het Overzicht was pro-Flemish.[5] Then it became a modernist periodical of European stature.[5] The magazine adopted a constructivist,[6] dadaist and avant-garde approach.[7] It published poems in their original languages.[2] Michel Seuphor and Jozef Peeters were the editors of Het Overzicht of which regular contributors included Geert Grub, Georges Walz, Alice Nahon,[5]  [nl], Leo Steiner, Gaston Burssens and Michel Seuphor.[1]

The last issue of Het Overzicht, No=24, was published in February 1925.[1] Until its cessation in 1925 it was the major avant-garde magazine in the country.[3] All issues of the magazine are archived in the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp.[1]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Het Overzicht". Dada Companion. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b Francis Mus (2008). "Internationalization in Belgian Literary Periodicals after WWI. Outline of a Research Project". In Pieter Boulogne (ed.). Translation and Its Others. Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Seminar in Translation Studies 2007 (PDF). Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b Rajesh Heynickx; Jan De Maeyer (1 January 2010). The Maritain Factor: Taking Religion Into Interwar Modernism. Leuven University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-90-5867-714-3. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Michel Seuphor Biography". Whitford Fine Art. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (19 May 2013). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880 - 1940. Oxford University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  7. ^ Ellen Lupton; Elaine Lustig Cohen (1 March 1996). Letters from the Avant-Garde: Modern Graphic Design. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-56898-052-2. Retrieved 17 May 2015.

External links[]

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