Yves Klein, “IKB 191”, 1962

Yves Klein, “IKB 191”, 1962

Klein began his studies in 1942 at the École Nationale de la Marine Marchande and the École Nationale des Langues Orientales (now the Institut National des Langues), where he befriended the young poet Claude Pascal and the sculptor Arman Fernandez. The artists shared...
Derek Walcott, The red nigger who love the sea, 1992

Derek Walcott, The red nigger who love the sea, 1992

Derek Walcott, the poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, was born in 1930 in Castries, the capital of Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles. Since 1981, he taught creative writing at Brown University in Providence, USA.Poetry and theater are, for the...
The Cantos, Ezra Pound, 1915-1962

The Cantos, Ezra Pound, 1915-1962

The incomplete poem by the American poet Ezra Pound, written between 1915 and 1962, is considered one of the masterpieces of modernist literature. Collected in about ten volumes, it is divided into 117 sections, each of which constitutes a canto. Below is an excerpt...