Anne Tardos is a French-born American poet, visual artist,
academic, and composer.
Early life and education
Tardos was born in
Cannes
Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...
, France. As a child, she lived in German-occupied
Paris
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, later moving with her parents to
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
, where she learned Hungarian. Because of the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; ), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by ...
, Tardos and her family moved to
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
, where she learned German and attended a French high school. After completing high school, she spent two years in Paris. In 1966, she moved to the United States. Tardos received her education in film and the visual arts, attending
Filmacademy Vienna from 1963 to 1965, then the
Art Students League of New York
The Art Students League of New York is an art school in the American Fine Arts Society in Manhattan, New York City. The Arts Students League is known for its broad appeal to both amateurs and professional artists.
Although artists may study f ...
from 1966 to 1970, where she was the recipient of
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a $25,000 (about $550,000 in 2023) gift from Edsel Ford. ...
grants. In 1971 work "Apple Eaters" was shown in New York in 1972.
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Career
Her books of multilingual poems and graphics include ''The Dik-dik's Solitude'': ''New and Selected Works'' (Granary Books, 2002), ''A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger's Camouflage Totally'' (Belladonna Books, 2003), ''Uxudo'' (1999), ''Mayg-shem Fish'' (1995), and ''Cat Licked the Garlic'' (1992).
She is among the guest faculty at Naropa University
Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named after the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university ...
(2008, 1994) and has lectured and led workshops at the University of Alberta
The University of Alberta (also known as U of A or UAlberta, ) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta, and Henry Marshall Tory, t ...
(2018), Bard College
Bard College is a private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains within the Hudson River Historic District ...
(2008), University of California, Berkeley
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(2003), University at Buffalo
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(2003), The New School
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(2001, 2018), University of Hawaii at Manoa
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(1999), The School of Poetry of Vienna (1996, 1994, 1993), University of Szeged
The University of Szeged () is a Public university, public research university in Szeged, Hungary. Established as the Jesuit Academy of Kolozsvár in present-day Cluj-Napoca in 1581, the institution was re-established as a university in 1872 by ...
(1993), University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...
(1990), School of Visual Arts
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History
This school was started by Silas ...
(1987), University at Albany, SUNY
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(1986), and the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1982).
Tardos is the author of the multilingual performance work ''Among Men'', which was produced by West German Radio Westdeutscher Rundfunk
(; "West German Broadcasting Cologne"), shortened to WDR (), is a German public broadcasting, public-broadcasting institution based in the States of Germany, Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a const ...
(WDR), in Cologne. ''Among Men'' consists of 17 music scores and two reader's scores, with text based on encyclopedia entries for female artists and the first names of the men whose entries fall between theirs. The scores utilize collaged sound and visual elements from female musicians and artists, with variation allowed for in performance according to the visibility of a note on the score. ''Among Men'' was also performed live at Roulette, New York (1996); the Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (1994); and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University
Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named after the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university ...
, Boulder, CO (1994).
She met Jackson Mac Low
Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 – December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compos ...
in 1975; the two lived and worked together from 1978 until his death in 2004. ''Thing of Beauty, New and Selected Works'' by Jackson Mac Low, edited by Tardos, released January 2008 by the University of California Press
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, provides a general outline of Mac Low's poetic oeuvre and includes many previously unpublished texts. Tardos's editorial work has been highly lauded, with Publishers Weekly
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stating that "''Thing of Beauty'' does the best job to date in providing a window into Mac Low’s unique perspective on what constitutes poetic beauty." ''154 Forties'' ( Counterpath Press, 2012) collects all of Mac Low's Forties poems; and in 2015, ''The Complete Light Poems'' appeared from Chax Press
Charles Alexander (born 1954) is an American poet, publisher, and book artist. He is the director and editor-in-chief of Chax Press. Alexander also served as the director of the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts from 1993 until 1995, and as book ...
, a collection of all the Light Poems by Mac Low, co-edited with Michael O'Driscoll.
For collecting and preserving many of Mac Low's artworks, Tardos received a grant from the Judith Rothschild Foundation. Tardos is a Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Works
* ''The Exploding Nothingness of Never Define,'' BlazeVOX Books
BlazeVOX Books, often stylized as BlazeVOX ooks is an independent publisher founded by Geoffrey Gatza and based in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York (state), New York. Since 2000, it has published more than 350 books of poetry and prose, m ...
, 2020
* ''The Camel's Pedestal,'' BlazeVOX Books
BlazeVOX Books, often stylized as BlazeVOX ooks is an independent publisher founded by Geoffrey Gatza and based in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York (state), New York. Since 2000, it has published more than 350 books of poetry and prose, m ...
, a collection of poetry written between 2009 and 2017.
* ''NINE,'' published by BlazeVOX Books
BlazeVOX Books, often stylized as BlazeVOX ooks is an independent publisher founded by Geoffrey Gatza and based in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York (state), New York. Since 2000, it has published more than 350 books of poetry and prose, m ...
, 2015
* ''Both Poems,'' Roof Books, 2011 collects two long poems: "Pronounce," based on pronouns; and the beginning of the series ''NINE''.
* ''I Am You,'' Salt Publishing
Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched ''Salt Magazine'' in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry ...
, 2008, is a collection of five long poems that explore the limits of language, time, subjectivity and grief. A deeply personal elegy for Mac Low, ''I Am You'' is also a poetic inquiry into the boundaries of the human subject. A new edition was printed by BlazeVOX Books
BlazeVOX Books, often stylized as BlazeVOX ooks is an independent publisher founded by Geoffrey Gatza and based in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York (state), New York. Since 2000, it has published more than 350 books of poetry and prose, m ...
in 2016.
* ''The Dik-dik's Solitude: New and Selected Works'' Granary Books, 2008.
References
External links
Academy of American Poets
PennSound Author Page
Anne Tardos web site
Electronic Arts Intermix
Jackson Mac Low web site (for photos)
Michael Byron web site
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Living people
1940s births
People from Cannes
French emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)