Concrete Poetry

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Concrete Poetry
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Origins

• Term refers to variety of experiments following
  WWII
• Origins in 1955, Ulm
• Eugen Gomringer and Decio Pignatari
• From either constructivist or expressionist
  tradition (Mike Weaver)
• Classifications
• Visual (optic)
• Phonetic (sound)
• Kinetic (visual succession)

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Fundamentals

• Concentration upon the physical material from
  which the poem or text is made
• The material is language
• But words are reduced to their elements of
  letters and syllables
• The essential is reduced language
• New relationship to space and/or to time
• Creating something to be perceived. Not read.

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Concrete Poets

• Eugen Gomringer (Switzerland)
• Decio Pignatari (Brazil)
• Emmett Williams (US)
• Oyvind Fahlstrom (Sweden)
• Ian Hamilton Finlay (Scotland)
• Kitasono Katue (Japan)

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Ian Hamilton Ocean Stripe Series
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