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Cannibale Le Coeur à barbe. Edited by Tristan Tzara. Paris, 1922. 1 Number. No. 1 ( Paris, 1922) [PDF, 4.1mb] The first and only issue of a "transparent newspaper" published by Tristan Tzara in April, 1922 in reply to André Breton's attacks on him in the March 2nd issue of Comoedia. It contains texts by Éluard, Ribemont-Dessaignes, Satie, Fraenkel, Huidobro, Péret, Soupault, Duchamp, etc. The cover design by Tzara is one of the best-known and most appealing graphic inventions of Paris Dada. The affair came to an end on the 'Bearded Heart Evening' at the Michel Theatre on July 6, 1923. DESCRIPTION Subtitle Journal transparent. N° 1 (April 1922). Only one issue published. Edited by Tristan Tzara; Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Published by Au Sans Pareil, Paris. 8 pp. ; 22.5 x 14 cm. CONTRIBUTORS Paul Éluard, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Tristan Tzara, Erik Satie, Theodor Fraenkel, Vitorio Huidobro, Benjamin Péret, Philippe Soupault, Rrose Sélavy [= Marcel Duchamp], André Breton and others. FACSIMILES/REPRINTS online Digital Dada Library, International Dada Archive. printed Reprinted in 'Dada francese', in Documenti e periodici Dada / a cura di Arturo Schwarz. Collezione di ristampe anastatiche diretta da Massimo Carra e Giorgio de Marchis (G. Mazzotta : Milano 1970). Includes Le Coeur à barbe, Cannibale, La Pomme de pins, Projecteur and Z). Michel Giroud (ed.), Cabaret Voltaire. Der Zeltweg. Dada. Le Coeur A Barbe 1916-1922 (Éditions Jean Michel Place : Paris 1981). [anthology] 'Cannibale, Z1, Projecteur and Le coeur à barbe', in The Dada Reader. A Critical Anthology / edited by Dawn Ades (Tate Publishing : London 2006) 253-256. SECONDARY LITERATURE Dawn Ades 'Cannibale, Z1, Projecteur and Le coeur à barbe', in The Dada reader. A critical anthology / edited by Dawn Ades (Tate Publishers : London 2006) 244. Nathalie Ernoult 'Coeur à barbe', in Dada (Editions du Centre Pompidou : Paris 2005) 268.