Charles Sirato (26 January 1905, in Újvidék – 1 January 1980, in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet, art theorist, and translator. He most famously authored the Dimensionist manifesto.

Life

Pre-1930

Dimensionist manifesto

In 1936 in Paris, Charles Tamkó Sirató published his Manifeste Dimensioniste, which described how

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The manifesto was signed by many prominent modern artists worldwide. Yervand Kochar, Hans Arp, Francis Picabia, Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay and Marcel Duchamp amongst others added their names in Paris, then a short while later it was endorsed by artists abroad including László Moholy-Nagy, Joan Miró, David Kakabadze, Alexander Calder, and Ben Nicholson.

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List of works

Literature

Manifeste Dimensioniste, 1936

Az Élet tavaszán, 1921

Le Planisme, 1936

Kiáltás, 1942

A három űrsziget, 1969

A Vízöntő-kor hajnalán, 1969

Tengereczki Pál, 1970

A hegedű vőlegénye, 1971

Pinty és Ponty, 1972

Kozmogrammok, 1975

Tengereczki hazaszáll, 1975

Szélkiáltó, 1977

Jövőbúvárok, 1980

Összegyűjtött versei I., 1993

References

Hungarian artists

Hungarian male poets

1905 births

1980 deaths

20th-century Hungarian poets

20th-century Hungarian male writers

Charles Sirato