Audio, interviews, and digital poems by Brazilian concrete poets (in Portuguese)
Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space
March 28–July 30, 2017Getty Research Institute
Drawn principally from the Getty Research Institute's collection of prints, artists' books, journals, and manuscripts documenting the international concrete poetry movement, this exhibition focuses on the visual, verbal, and sonic experiments of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Featuring works by foundational figures Augusto de Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Concrete Poetry explores how these artists invented new forms such as cube poems and standing poems and continuously re-created their projects across media. Poetry by contemporaries including Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Mary Ellen Solt, and Emmett Williams also plays a prominent role.
BRAZILIAN CONCRETE POETRY
Concrete Poetry of Noigandres, 1958–1975 | Avant.org
Overview of the Noigandres group with audio and video resources
Augusto de Campos | Artist's Website
Includes a bibliography, poems, essays, and "clip-poemas"
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
The Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay | The Little Sparta Trust
Ian Hamilton Finlay's greatest work of art, his sculptural garden Little Sparta
Stuart Collection | University of California, San Diego
Photographs and video about Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture, Unda (Wave)
PRESS REVIEWS
- Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2017
- Hyperallergic, June 3, 2017
- The Guardian, April 7, 2017
- Hyperallergic, March 22, 2017
AROUND THE WEB
A Token of Concrete Affection | Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
Exhibition website including audio files of the related symposium
Ernst Jandl | Verlagsgruppe Random House
Ernst Jandl's writings and life (in German)
Avant-Garde Archive | Ubuweb
Extensive archive of sound poetry including work by Hugo Ball, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Kurt Schwitters, and Emmett Williams. A tribute to Mary Ellen Solt and her books Flowers in Concrete (1966) and Concrete Poetry–A World View (1968)
RELATED VIDEOS
"Paper Pear Paper": Charting the Course of Concrete Poetry | Getty Center
Panelists compared the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay to that of the Brazilian concrete poets and European contemporaries
An Interview with Caetano Veloso | Modern Language Association 2016
Marjorie Perloff interviews singer and songwriter Caetano Veloso
Décio Pignatari and Cid Campos | No lago do olho
Décio Pignatari reading his poem LIFE with music by Cid Campos
REVER | Sesc Pompeia
Video of REVER, the retrospective exhibition of the work of Augusto de Campos, held at Sesc Pompeia in Sao Paulo, May 5–July 31, 2016
Gallery Tours
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 p.m.
March 28–July 27, 2017
(Note: no tour on July 4)
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Related Event
"Paper Pear Paper": Charting the Course of Concrete Poetry
Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center