Stefan Themerson
Writer, philosopher, composer, poet (creator of semantic poetry),author of avant-garde films, publisher. He studied physics and architecture in Warsaw. In 1930-1937 he made avant-garde films with his wife, Franciszka Themerson, preceded by experiments in photography and film. Themersons founded the Film Cooperative and published the magazine "f.a." (art film). Many children's books written by Stefan with illustrations by Franciszka were published at the time.
He wrote in Polish, French and English.
source: lubimyczytac.pl
"I am a verb."
The prematurely deceased poet and literary critic Michal Sprusinski tried to characterize Themerson's work, which eludes definition, in this way:
- Themerson is a philosopher, a logician, who is distinguished by an utterly extraordinary precision of thought, but who at the same time did not lose a few basic things. And as a logician, who was held in high esteem by Bertrand Russell, both as a philosopher and as a novelist, he remembered to make the word very precise, to avoid any noise, to make it all a perfect but nevertheless full of imaginative frenzy," Sprusinski said in the archival recording used in the Polish Radio broadcast.
When asked to make a statement about himself, the artist described himself as follows:
- I am more of a verb than a noun. For billions of years I wasn't there, then I started happening, now I'm happening and soon I'll stop happening. These are the characteristics of a verb, not a noun," Stefan Themerson said in a Polish Radio broadcast.
source: polskieradio.pl
