Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Adriano Spatola and Giovanni Fontana. It is extensively illustrated with examples of concrete and visual poetry and also depicts covers of small magazines published in this field. It provides the largest listing of contemporaneous concrete and visual poets working throughout the world. There is also a section on record jackets of sound poetry recordings. Niccolai and Spatola provide an introductory essay into concrete and visual poetry as follows: "The formulas "concrete" poetry and "visual" poetry are the most widepread in the world but they are only the tip of an iceberg up of at least a hundred definitions, for example: evident poetry, elementary poetry, gestural poetry, symbiotic poetry, ideographic poetry, spatial poetry, artificial poetry, casual poetry and so on. But to simplify matters, in writing this present statement, we will keep ourselves to the trade mark concreto & visuale. This exhibition is both a hypothesis of research and a...

Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Adriano Spatola and Giovanni Fontana. It is extensively illustrated with examples of concrete and visual poetry and also depicts covers of small magazines published in this field. It provides the largest listing of contemporaneous concrete and visual poets working throughout the world. There is also a section on record jackets of sound poetry recordings. Niccolai and Spatola provide an introductory essay into concrete and visual poetry as follows: "The formulas "concrete" poetry and "visual" poetry are the most widepread in the world but they are only the tip of an iceberg up of at least a hundred definitions, for example: evident poetry, elementary poetry, gestural poetry, symbiotic poetry, ideographic poetry, spatial poetry, artificial poetry, casual poetry and so on. But to simplify matters, in writing this present statement, we will keep ourselves to the trade mark concreto & visuale. This exhibition is both a hypothesis of research and a...

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The chapters dealing with the world-wide concrete poetry movement include Experimental Poetry and Poetic Experiences, Technical Styles, Alphabets and Calligraphy, Silences of Movement, Constellation, Text/Surface, and Bibliography. This is the 2nd expanded edition of the original published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was later published in an expanded 2nd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.