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Vera Rohm / Rohm, Vera ; Gomringer E ; Bann S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-49740-70793
Scope and Contents Eugen Gomringer contributes an essay "Aspects of a Gesamtkunstwerk: Vera Rohm's oeuvre in Time and Space" Stephen Bann's essay is titled "Erganzung: Integration." He writes the following. Visiting Vera Rohm's studios in Darmstadt a few days prior to a lecturing engagement in Brighton set off a series of conjunctions and coincidences in my mind. It was in the centre of Brighton that I had organized a Concrete Poetry Exhibition to coincide with the first Brighton Festival in April 1967. Brighton Square, in the middle of the Lanes, had its perky modern architecture offset by two typographical installations involving Perspex screens and constructions, the first being a communal project on the 'five vowels' produced by the students of Bath Academy of Art under the direction of John Furnival, and the second a set of 'typographical columns' by the German Hansjorg Mayer. In the spaces around the Royal Pavilion, banners designed by the typographer Edward Wright displayed Concrete poems by...
Dates: 2006