{"product_id":"ptl-zomer-63-no-1","title":"PTL Zomer 63. tijdschrift voor letteren en schoone kunsten [No. 1]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePTL\u003c\/em\u003e was a Dutch avant-garde periodical devoted to literature and the fine arts, founded in Arnhem in the summer of 1963 by Herman de Vries and Laurens D. Vancrevel. Its first issue comprises textual contributions – predominantly poetry and essays – by Hans Mils, Raymond Soriano, Dick Verzijden, Peter Iden, and many others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe issue is distinguished by an early number-based poem by Stanley Brouwn, anticipating his interest in meticulous counting and mathematical representations of the world, as well as by the magazine’s manifesto: a newspaper clipping from a local journal in which de Vries and Vancrevel introduce themselves and outline the periodical’s concept in a wittily descriptive article entitled “What is PTL?”. The text, loosely translated from the Dutch, reads:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Arnhem residents De Vries and Vancrevel published a literary stencil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA mysterious question, which is a fact for two men from Arnhem, Herman de Vries and Laurens D. Vancrevel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe fact is that behind these three sonorous capitals lies a literary stencil, which was recently launched at Israëls’ antiquarian bookshop in the Bakkerstraat.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePTL is intended as a reservoir and reception center for young literary artists, whose work otherwise threatens to be lost due to a lack of that twentieth-century Maecenas, the publisher. A fresh stencil breeze is blowing in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘I must have recently said I am an active writer in Dutch literature.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis nice saying certainly applies to PTL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe content is, as editors De Vries and Vancrevel put it, a-programmatic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMentally ill: The first page begins with a quote from Aldous Huxley. The page concludes with four lines of poetry by Mathurin Régnier. In between are the background of PTL and a list of contributors. These contributors sometimes come from across the border. But the majority are from the Netherlands. There is even an author among them who is mentally ill and whose pronouncements have been preserved for posterity by a psychiatrist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlue paper: PTL has 36 pages, on blue paper. Not all of them are typed or written on. Some are intended to be illustrative. For example, there is a blank page, with in the center some glued sugar. This work is by one of the editors, Herman de Vries, and bears the name ‘Reflektie’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe figures on the cover have been applied with cork by the compilers, so that every buyer has the assurance of owning a unique work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHerman de Vries (31), a slender man with a friendly face, framed by a blond beard and crowned with glasses, has already made a name for himself with his famous book ‘Wit’. This unique edition consisted of a few hundred completely blank pages, from which, as indicated on the flap, nothing was to be reproduced or copied without permission, etc. It was presented on television by publisher M. Israëls, and costs 250 guilders. At an exhibition, a youthful vandal’s hand had written a swear word on one of the blank pages. The insurance then paid out 50 guilders, intended to cover the restoration costs. Rarely has a three-syllable word yielded the author more money.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHockey player: The other editor, Laurens D. Vancrevel, has the appearance of a hockey player, and it is difficult to tell that his ideas stem from a 22-year-old mind. He represents the surrealist movement. De Vries is more inclined toward the ‘Zero group’. So far, there are already six customers, known by name and pronoun to the editors.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54745503957331,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4543.png?v=1787819031","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/ptl-zomer-63-no-1","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}