Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Malcolm_de_Chazal> ?p ?o. }

• Malcolm_de_Chazal abstract "Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées. Chazal was born in Vacoas of a French family long established in Mauritius and wrote all his works in French. Except for six years at Louisiana State University, where he received an engineering degree, he spent most of his time in Mauritius where he worked as an agronomist on sugar plantations and later for the Office of Telecommunications.In 1940 he began to publish in Mauritius a series of volumes consisting of hundreds of numbered thoughts and ideas entitled Pensées. In 1945, a seventh volume of Pensées, bound with another collection of unnumbered aphorisms entitled Sens-Plastique appeared, and two years later a separate Sens-Plastique, Volume II, appeared. It was this latter volume on which the Gallimard edition of 1948 was based that brought Chazal into prominence in France. He was hailed as a surrealist by André Breton. The following examples may illustrate the novelty and variety of Sens-Plastique.Half-opened petals give the flower an adenoidal look.We know the halls of the eye like welcome visitors but we live in our mouth.Any man who acts singly in the press of a mob will get trampled. Shifting into reverse while making love can kill you.Immediately before it falls, water turns into a living being as if a person's soul had just slipped into it: look at the way it bends and twists, writhing in desperation. (What if you threw a not quite cold corpse out of an airplane—would the dead awaken?...)In the prefaces and afterwords of the various editions of Sens-Plastique Chazal explained his method of thinking and writing as follows:My philosophical position in this work derives from the principle that man and nature are entirely continuous, and that all parts of the human body and all expressions of the human face, including their feelings, can actually be discerned in plants, flowers, and fruits, and to an even greater extent in our other selves, animals. And although minerals are usually considered inanimate, death-like rather than life-like, I would have them also tend towards that supreme synthesis, the human form, especially when they are in motion. "Man was made in the image of God," but beyond that I declare that "Nature was made in the image of man."But I could never have done this by reasoning. I had to rely on subconscious thinking, the only intuitive resource available to humans—which few of us ever use in an entire lifetime. . . .I should add that I could never have learned to think subconsciously without years of ascetic withdrawal. depriving my body, isolating my self, concentrating my mind and spirit. . .until by stages I had perfected what I consider to be a totally new method of writing.Chazal's other writings include notably La Vie Filtrée (1949), a collection of essays that elaborate the ideas found in Sens-Plastique, Sens Magique (1957) and Poèmes (1968 ), gnomic verses that dramatize the experiences described in Sens-Plastique, and Petrusmok (1951), the spiritual history of Mauritius found in its natural surroundings. Chazal took up painting in the 1950s at the suggestion of Georges Braque. Unlike the speculative aphoristic character of his best-known writings, his paintings concentrated on natural forms and landscapes in a primitive, emblematic style. Sens-Plastique has been translated into English by Irving Weiss in a volume published by Green Integer (2008) as Sens-Plastique.".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal birthDate "1902-09-12".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal birthYear "1902".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal deathDate "1981-10-01".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal deathYear "1981".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal viafId "109991137".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal wikiPageID "1190104".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal wikiPageRevisionID "593295838".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal dateOfBirth "1902-09-12".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal dateOfDeath "1981-10-01".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal hasPhotoCollection Malcolm_de_Chazal.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal name "De Chazal, Malcolm".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal shortDescription "Mauritian artist".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal description "Mauritian artist".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal description "Mauritian artist".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal subject Category:1902_births.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal subject Category:1981_deaths.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal subject Category:Mauritian_artists.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal subject Category:Mauritian_writers.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal subject Category:People_from_Moka_District.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Artist109812338.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type CausalAgent100007347.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Communicator109610660.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Creator109614315.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type LivingThing100004258.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type MauritianArtists.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type MauritianWriters.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Object100002684.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Organism100004475.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type PeopleFromMokaDistrict.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Person100007846.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type PhysicalEntity100001930.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Whole100003553.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Writer110794014.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type YagoLegalActor.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type YagoLegalActorGeo.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Agent.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Person.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Person.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Q215627.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Q5.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Agent.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type NaturalPerson.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Thing.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal type Person.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal comment "Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées. Chazal was born in Vacoas of a French family long established in Mauritius and wrote all his works in French.".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal label "Malcolm de Chazal".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal label "Malcolm de Chazal".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal label "Malcolm de Chazal".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal label "Malcolm de Chazal".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal label "Шазаль, Малькольм де".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs Malcolm_de_Chazal.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs Malcolm_de_Chazal.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs Malcolm_de_Chazal.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs m.04fws_.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs Q549230.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs Q549230.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal sameAs Malcolm_de_Chazal.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal wasDerivedFrom Malcolm_de_Chazal?oldid=593295838.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal givenName "Malcolm".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal isPrimaryTopicOf Malcolm_de_Chazal.
• Malcolm_de_Chazal name "De Chazal, Malcolm".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal name "Malcolm De Chazal".
• Malcolm_de_Chazal surname "De Chazal".