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Solt, Mary Ellen

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-07-08 - 2007-06-21

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

The Peoplemover / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-39679-41638
Scope and Contents

This book is a political drama that utilized concrete poetic posters as the props. The theme is the Nixon era of political discontent with civil rights and the Vietnam war. A copy of the prints for the out of doors protest are also held by the Sackner Archive. This poetry performance piece written by Solt, a leader of the concrete poetry movement,was composed in reaction to the anger and frustration she was feeling in 1968 due to the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. First performed by Donald Bell's experimental design class at Indiana University on August 7, 1968, the piece expanded after each performance incorporating Solts's poetry as well as additional bits of random dialogue creating a "dadaesque" multimedia art piece involving a projection screen and audience participation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978