RIP Simon Vinkenoog (1928 – 2009)
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RIP Simon Vinkenoog (1928 – 2009)
RIP Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer.
Simon Vinkenoog (1928 – 2009) was a Dutch poet and writer. He was instrumental in launching the Dutch "Fifties Movement".
In the Anglosphere Vinkenoog's name is associated with the Albert Hall poetry event (and the film Wholly Communion) and his connection with IT magazine.
He was one of the Néerlandophone beat writers. The same cultural climate that begot the beat writers in the United States engendered European counterparts.
These counterculturs most be looked for in two spheres, the sphere of European counterculture and the sphere of European avant-garde.
In France this was the Letterist International, in Germany Gruppe 47 and visually there was COBRA.
Vinkenoog was born in the same year as Andy Warhol, Serge Gainsbourg, Jeanne Moreau, Nicolas Roeg, Guy Bourdin, Luigi Colani, Stanley Kubrick, Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, William Klein, Roger Vadim, Yves Klein, Jacques Rivette, Alvin Toffler, Ennio Morricone and Oswalt Kolle.
I've mentioned Vinkenoog [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6] and here[7].
