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This book is also designated Coleccion Nueva Escritura, volume 9 & 10. This book concentrates on Spanish poets who composed pattern, shaped, concrete and visual poems. The left sided portion of this book focuses on the historic aspects of pattern poetry illustrated with several examples. The right sided portion deals with examples of contemporary concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator, Raphael Tous, was also the collector of the books on display. Ulises Carrion, Guy Schraenen and Jose Luis Mata contributed introductory essays about artist books. It included approximately 1000 books. Several pages have been detached from the glued binding. Several books exhibited in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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Includes illustrations of "A Journey," silkscreen prints by Emmett Williams; the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.