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Primitive Arts: America, Oceania, Africa. Extensive bibliography. Sale of the library and collections of objects (America – Oceania – Africa) that belonged to the poet and surrealist Tristan TZARA and various lovers. Good definitions and comments. Excellent illustrations. Superb color photos and bibliographic reference documentation. TRISTAN TZARA (1896 – 1963): Writer and poet, critic and art theorist, has worked throughout his life to defend man against all forms of social oppression, beginning with that of language, when he founded in 1916 in Zurich Dada movement with a group of artists and intellectuals fleeing the war … He has continued throughout his life to protest against the absurd. He lived among the works of these great artists who were his friends, Ernst, Picasso, Miro, Tanguy etc …