Arthur Petronio papers 1919-1971

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Arthur Petronio papers 1919-1971

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt038nd8jt

Small archive of Arthur Petronio, composer of verbophonic works, or works at the intersection of poetry and music.

5.7 linear feet; (2 boxes, 2 flatfile folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6650016

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Hellens, Franz

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Mesens, E. L. T. (Edouard Léon Théodore), 1903-1971.

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E.L.T. Mesens supported and promoted the work of surrealist artists and writers, especially those in Belgium and England. He admired the work of Magritte above all and was an early supporter and collector of his paintings. Mesens also wrote music, poetry, and criticism, and created drawings, paintings and collage. From the description of Papers of E. L. T. Mesens, 1917-1976, (bulk 1920-1971). (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84394807 ...

Floquet, Pierre Louis

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Le Fauconnier, Henri, 1881-1945

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Petronio, Arthur

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Biographical/Historical Note Arthur Petronio was born in Switzerland in 1897. His father was Leopoldo Fregoli, a music hall artist, and Arthur was trained as a classical musician. He shared in the World War I era avant-garde fascination with sound poetry, visual poetry and the music of ambient sounds, and under the influence of Wassily Kandinsky and Henri Le Fauconnier developed in 1919 a verbophonic theory for incorporating vowel sounds as e...