Women in concrete poetry

Women in concrete, visual, and sound poetry.

Gallery

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  Mirella Bentivoglio, L’(assente), positivo/negativo, segno/figura [The Absent One, Positive/Negative, Sign/Figure], 1971. Serigraph on paper, 62.55 x 48.26 cm. (Source).

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  Mirella Bentivoglio, E = congiunzione [And = Conjunction], 1973. Serigraph on paper, 20.96 x 29.85 cm. (Source).

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  Mirella Bentivoglio, Io [Me], 1979. Photo­mech­anical print on paper, 60 x 40 cm. (Source).

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  Mirella Bentivoglio, Moduli a E [E Combinations], 1980. Ink on paper drawings after 1977 wooden constructions, 29.53 x 20.96 cm. (Source).

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  Irma Blank, Radical Writings, Rosa geatmet, rosa gechrieben [Pink Breathed, Pink Scripted], 1987. Acrylic on canvas (diptych), 2 × 2.4 m. Photograph: C. Favero. (Source).

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  Irma Blank, Osmotic Drawings D-7, 1996. Acrylic on paper, 23 × 30 cm. Photograph: C. Favero. (Source).

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Poets, artists, collectives

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  Io [Me], Mirella Bentivoglio in the 1970s. (Source).

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  Irma Blank photographed in her studio, Milan, 1977, in front of Law I and Law II, 1975, ink on parchment-like paper. Photograph: Maria Mulas. Source.

Catalogues

Group exhibitions

• Materializzazione del linguaggio, ed. Mirella Bentivoglio, Biennale di Venezia 1978-Arti visive e architettura, 1978, 55 pp. Catalogue for exh. held 20 Sep-15 Oct 1978. Text by Mirella Bentivoglio, biographies of the exhibiting artists including Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, Irma Blank, Mirella Bentivoglio, Lia Dreai, Chiara Diamantini, Elisabetta Gut, Ketty La Rocca, Lucia Marcucci, Simona Weller, Carla Vasio, Giulia Niccolai, Paola Levi Montalcini, Maria Lai, Tomaso Binga. [1] {{it}

Solo exhibitions

• Mirella Bentivoglio: Pages: Selected Works, 1966-2012, ed. & intro. Frances K. Pohl, Claremont, CA: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2015, 152 pp, Excerpt (pp 57-90). This book is the first museum publication in English on Italian artist Mirella Bentivoglio (born 1922). It includes critical essays by art historians Frances K. Pohl, Leslie Cozzi and Franca Zoccoli, interviews with Bentivoglio and John David O'Brien, and a biographical note by Rosaria Abate, plus a bibliography. The book highlights work from the recent exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, which surveyed nearly 50 years of the artist's work as an internationally renowned member of the Concrete and visual poetry movements. Including works in paper, stone, metal, wood, cloth, plastic and Plexiglass and with numerous previously unpublished images, it reveals the ways in which Bentivoglio engaged with many of the most significant formal and theoretical issues of postwar art--for example, the relationship between image and text, the impact of mass media and consumer culture, feminist critiques of patriarchy and artistic interventions in public spaces. Exhibition: Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, USA (20.01-17.05.2015). [2] (English)

Reception, art historical studies, theory

• Leslie Cozzi, "Notes on the Index, Continued: Italian Feminism and the Art of Mirella Bentivoglio and Ketty La Rocca", Cahiers d’études italiennes 16, 2013, pp 213-234. (English)

See also

Concrete poetry, Sound poetry