BURKHARDT, Klaus. futura 2: coldtypestructure. Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer. 1965.
Folded broadside, printed to recto only; text in German; fine.
Issue no. 2 in the 'Futura' folded broadside series, issued by Hansjörg Mayer, one of the most influential actors of concrete poetry and the expeirmental typography of the 1960s, between 1965 and 1968.
It features a large-scale concrete poem by Burkhardt comprised of overlapping letter structures. The recto side of this folded broadside features a biography of the artist and a postscript by the German scholar and author Reinhard Döhl.
In his postscript, Döhl refers to the broadside as an enlightening 'map' in the genre of concrete poetry.
SKU: 2121909