CROMMELIN, Liesbeth (curator). klankteksten, konkrete poëzie, visuele teksten; sound texts, concrete poetry, visual texts; akustische texte, konkrete poesie, visuelle texte.

Concrete Poetry around the World

CROMMELIN, Liesbeth (curator). klankteksten, konkrete poëzie, visuele teksten; sound texts, concrete poetry, visual texts; akustische texte, konkrete poesie, visuelle texte. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum.1971.

4to. Publisher’s white wrappers printed in blue and black; pp. 230, [2]; text in Dutch, English, and German, numerous in-text illustrations; light toning to upper wrapper, a few nicks to extremities; slight creasing to first leaf, uniform light browning; otherwise very good.

First edition of the exhibition catalogue for the 1970 exhibition of sound texts, concrete poetry, and visual texts klankteksten / ?konkrete poëzie / visuele teksten staged at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and later in Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Liverpool, and Oxford.

The catalogue featured the works of some one hundred and forty visual poets, including Bob Cobbing, Paul de Vree, Dom Silvester Houédard, and Reinhard Döhl. This is seemingly the last of at least eleven international anthologies published between 1965 and 1970 to bear the title ‘Concrete Poetry’, according to Claus Clüver. This extensively illustrated catalogue, printed in Dutch, English, and German, is divided into three primary sections – ‘some forms and working methods in visual poetry’, ‘constellations and elaborations (mainly typovisual)’, and ‘open end’ – followed by a bibliography. Featured here are contributions from, amongst others, Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The exhibition was accompanied by a record of ‘Concrete Sound Poetry’ featuring nine performers.

See Clüver, Concrete Poetry and the New Performance Arts: Intersemiotic, Intermedia, Intercultural, in East of West: Cross-cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference (2000).

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