comment: | contribution to the series of 36 prints in exempla: documenti di poesia concreta e visuale / documents of concrete and visual poetry, edited by Maurizio Nannucci with works by herman de vries, Heinz Gappmair, Shohachiro Takahashi, Franco Verdi, and others (Firenze 1970); edition 200, numbered. In addition to the artists’ contributions, Nannucci also provides a declarative essay in Italian and English which outlines the global role and influence of experimental poetry since the 1950’s, and how as an art form, it will continue to evolve and influence language and semiotics. |