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Visual Poetry: A Web Guide
For a brief bibliography of critical approaches to this material,
as well as modernist viusal poems see Drucker and "Poetry
Plastique" in the Textual
Conditions syllabus
Pre-modernist Precedents:
Bodleain
Illuminated Ms collection
UVA
Blake and the Blake
Digital Text Project
Modernist precedents:
French
Book Art Show NYPL 2006
- Russian
avant-garde books (Getty collection of digized bookcs)
- also: flash
versions of some of the Gety books with audio and translation
- "12
Rare Books of the Avant-Garde" from Shickler Art
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Apollinaire, Calligrammes: Poems of Peace
and War 1913-1916 (1918): "La
Colombe Poignardée et le jet d’eauat" & "Lettre
Ocean"; see others at UBU "
Blaise Cendrars, "Prose of the Transiberian" in PM1; see image
of work (painting by Sonia Delaunay) at Penn Library: overview, detail, 2d
detail
Max Ernst,
La femme 100 têtes
A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil / Reve d'une petite
fIlle qui voulut enterer au carmel) / 1930
Stephan Mallarmé, Un
coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (web
versions French & English)
Marinetti Images (Penn only): "Parole
in Liberta", "Vive
La France," study/drawing for "Vive
La France", " Zang
Tumb Tuuum"
Futurist
time line (alt at lib.); the
gang
Mayakovsky images (Penn only): "A
Tragedy"; Mayokvsky
cover; Dliagolosa
(For the Voice) by Mayakovsky (1923)
Francis Picabia
Liabov Popova (1889-1924): Constructivist
Composition, Linear
Composition, "Spatial
Force Construction"
Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956), Cigarette ad; "Better
Pacifiers There Have Never Been"; Mayavoksy
ad for cookies; portrait
of Mayakovsky
Contemporary
Collections:
Emmett Williams, ed. Anthology
of Concrete Poetry
Milton Kolonsky, ed. Talking Pictures
Ubuweb
Concrete
Poetry Web Index by Michael P. Garofalo
Some
Concete poems by Gombringer, etc
Gallery
of Visual Poetry (Clemente Padin)
Gallery
of Concrete Poetry (Clemente Padin)
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Jay Sanders and Charles Bernstein, ed. Poetry
Plastique
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Granary
Books at Smith web site, including digital version of books
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Artists:
Arakawa / Gins: "Memory
of Meaning" , Mechanism
of Meaning (no longer avail.)
Wallace Berman, Untitled
(Music), 1974; letraset
Guy Debord and Asger Jorn, Mémoires
Haroldo de Campos, Three
concrete poems at UBU (also: De Campos: Selection
of Poems; Charles
Bernstein on de Campos, Roland Greene on
de Campos, "Circulado," text
with music by Caetano Veloso)
Léon
Ferrari, "Caligramas," based
on Bonvicino's 33 Poemas
detail of painting
Madeline
Gins, from Word
Rain (page with thumb)
Eugen
Gombringer
Ian Hamilton Finlay: "AEIOBlue", "Even-
ing Will Come"
Robert Grenier: Greetings and Pond
Susan Howe: from Thorow
Ronald Johnson: from Ark
Joseph Kosuth: variations
Steve McCaffery, Carnival:
sight and sound (see IV. items 4 & 5, text and sound)
Colin McCahon (New Zealand 1919-1887):
Numerals: "Numerals""Numbers" "Teaching
Aids" "Walk
with me" "Song
of the shining cuckoo--a poem"
Letters: "I
Am" "Angels
and bed[H]""The
days and nights in the wilderness" [I & T]
Poems: "The
Lark's Song""Poems
1-3"
"Elias
Triptych" "Grant
us...", "Am
I Scared""I
applied my name" "I
te puke" "In
my dark winter", "In
the courtyard" "Nouns & verbs" "O
let us weep" "Open
door"
Tom Phillips, Humament
home page
Décio
Pignatari, "Bebe Coca-Cola"; other
poems at UBU
Jaume Plensa
Beatrice Riese, Paperworks
Aram Saroyan: "crickets","m", "eyeye"
Mary Ellen Solt, "Forsythia," "waterefall" (1973)and
more at UBU
David Smith, "The
Letter" (1950)
Robert Smithson, "A
Heap of Language" (1966); commentary by Richard
Sieburth
Richard Tuttle & Charles Bernstein, "With
Strings"
Xu Bing: "Art
for the People" & "New
English Caligraphy" (Square word calligraphy), "Your
Surname Please"
Artist's Book:
Buzz Spector
Johanna Drucker
Susan Bee
Artist's Books on-linie
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