BURKHARDT, Klaus. future 2: coldtypestructure. Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer. 1965.
Folded broadside with letters printed in black to recto side only; text in German; fine.
Hansjörg Mayer was one of the most influential actors of concrete poetry and the expeirmental typography of the 1960s.
Issue no. 2 in the ‘futura’ folded broadside series, which was published by Hansjörg Mayer between 1965 – 1968, 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.
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