Scope and Contents Newton Haydn Stubbing composed concrete poems according to his widow, Yvonne Hagen Stubbing [internet Tate Gallery] in the late forties and early fifties both in English and Spanish such as the example here but no other examples were found on the internet. He may have been influenced by Mathias Goeritz with whom he knew in the School of Altamira, Spain in 1949-1950. England & Co. internet: Newton Haydn (Tony) Stubbing was born in England (1921-1983) but spent much of his life abroad. Firstly, in the late 1940s and '50s in Spain and France, where he began to develop as an artist; then, in later life, he lived between London and America. His hand-print paintings of the 1950s and '60s were the first to earn him an international reputation "“ Sir Herbert Read chose one as the final image in his influential book A Concise History of Modern Painting, published in 1960. These atmospheric paintings, often on a large scale, were made with Stubbing's hands "saturated like a living...

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According to his widow, Stubbing composed concrete poems in the late forties and early fifties both in English and Spanish. However, he is best known for his palm print abstract paintings. He might have became influenced in concrete poetry by Mathias Goeritz with whom he knew in the School of Altamura, Spain in 1949-1950. However, Goeritz's concrete poetry was published over a decade later from the Spanish experience. An original concrete poetic collage and typing "Poema Vociferado" c.1949 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book records the activiies of the school and is enriched by abstract and constructivistic drawings by the artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.