Marc Dachy

Marc Dachy

French art historian, publisher and translator

Died aged 62ScorpioFrance

Biography

Marc Dachy (born November 5, 1952, in Mortsel (near Antwerp) Belgium - died October 8, 2015, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris) was a French art historian whose speciality was Dadaism and Surrealism, an art curator, a translator, lecturer and publisher. The Prix des Créateurs was awarded to Dachy in 1978 by Eugène Ionesco.

Dachy was the founder of Transedition, the publisher of the Luna Park Journal that published texts by Antonin Artaud, Alain Arias-Misson, Samuel Beckett, Bernard Blistène, Alain Borer, Joan Brossa, John Cage, E.E. Cummings, Arthur Cravan, Nicolas Charlet, Sophie Podolski, Brion Gysin, Daniil Harms, Yannick Haenel, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Alain Jouffroy, Anselm Jappe, Takehisa Kosugi, Yves Klein, Pierre Restany, Gertrude Stein, Kate Steinitz, Virgil Thomson, Jacques Villeglé and Stéphane Zagdanski. The Journal was devoted partly to contemporary art creation and partly to the history of the avant-garde.

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Notable works

  • Dada: The Revolt of Art

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