Het Overzicht

Het Overzicht (meaning the Survey in English) was a Dutch language literary magazine published in Antwerp, Belgium, between 1921 and 1925. During its existence the magazine published a total of 24 issues.

Het Overzicht
Het Overzicht n° 14 (December 1922)
EditorMichel Seuphor
Jozef Peeters
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FounderMichel Seuphor
First issueJune 1921
Final issueFebruary 1925
CountryBelgium
Based inAntwerp
LanguageDutch
OCLC5787201

History and profile

Het Overzicht was first published in June 1921.[1][2] The magazine was subtitled as Half-Maandelijks Tijdschrift: Kunst, Letteren, Mensheid.[1] Michel Seuphor was the founder of the magazine.[3][4] Geert Pynenburg was also functional in the foundation.[5] Its headquarters was in Antwerp.[6]

During its early years Het Overzicht was pro-Flemish.[5] Then it became a modernist periodical of European stature.[5] The magazine adopted a constructivist,[6] dadaist and avant-garde approach.[7] It published poems in their original languages.[2] Michel Seuphor and Jozef Peeters were the editors of Het Overzicht of which regular contributors included Geert Grub, Georges Walz, Alice Nahon,[5] Victor Brunclair, Leo Steiner, Gaston Burssens and Michel Seuphor.[1]

The last issue of Het Overzicht, No=24, was published in February 1925.[1] Until its cessation in 1925 it was the major avant-garde magazine in the country.[3] All issues of the magazine are archived in the Middelheim Museum, Antwerp.[1]

See also

References
  1. "Het Overzicht". Dada Companion. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  2. Francis Mus (2008). "Internationalization in Belgian Literary Periodicals after WWI. Outline of a Research Project". In Pieter Boulogne (ed.). Translation and Its Others. Selected Papers of the CETRA Research Seminar in Translation Studies 2007 (PDF). Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  3. Rajesh Heynickx; Jan De Maeyer (1 January 2010). The Maritain Factor: Taking Religion Into Interwar Modernism. Leuven University Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-90-5867-714-3. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  4. "Michel Seuphor Biography". Whitford Fine Art. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  5. "Manu van der Aa, 'Love is what I have loved'. The life of Alice Nahon (1896-1933)" (PDF). University of Groningen. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  6. Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (19 May 2013). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880 - 1940. Oxford University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  7. Ellen Lupton; Elaine Lustig Cohen (1 March 1996). Letters from the Avant-Garde: Modern Graphic Design. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-56898-052-2. Retrieved 17 May 2015.

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