The «Constellations» of Concrete Poetry
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This paper examines a european and south-american movement of the '50s and '60s almost unknown in Greece: Concrete Poetry. The term was adopted in 1955 when the Suiss poet Eugen Gomringer met in Ulm Décio Pignatari, who had founded with his fellow Brazilians Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, the Noigandres Group. The key ideas of the movement were presented in many statements and manifestos - all selected and published by Mary Ellen Solt. The Concrete movement appeared in Greece in 1970, when an exhibition of Concrete Poetry was organized by the Goethe Institute. An international concrete anthology compiled by Costas Giannoulopoulos in 1982 -although unnoticed- confirmed the existence of a Greek concrete group.
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Μάλλη Μ. (2017). The «Constellations» of Concrete Poetry. Comparison, 16, 139–157. https://doi.org/10.12681/comparison.10089
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