Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos: Teoria da Poesia Concreta – Textos Críticos e Manifestos 1950-1960, 2a ed. (1965/1975) [Portuguese]
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O concretismo alterou profundamente a realidade da poesia brasileira. Revisou o passado literário do país e retomou o diálogo com o modernismo de 1922; pôs ideias em circulação e colocou à arte novos desafios. Hoje, está presente também na linguagem da propaganda, nos slogans da televisão, na diagramação de livros, nas letras de bossa nova. Este volume reúne os textos inaugurais do movimento concreto e recupera uma história que andava obscurecida pelos preconceitos de seus opositores.
First published in 1965
Publisher Livraria Duas Cidades, São Paulo, 1975
207 pages
via Horacio Gutiérrez
Pignatari’s bibliography at Monoskop wiki
Comment (0)Irradiador: revista de vanguardia, 1–3 (1923) [Spanish]
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“The Irradiador journal was edited by the artist Fermín Revueltas (1902-1935) and was the major early voice for the Mexican avant-garde movement called Estridentismo. The journal was short-lived, and only saw three issues: September, October, and November of 1923. Still, it saw contributions by major players in the international avant-gardes, all the while staying carefully attuned to Estridentismo‘s present social concerns for post-revolutionary Mexico.
The journal’s foremost concern was the propagation of the new aesthetics in Mexico, and furthering the cultural project of the Mexican revolution. Irradiador, it promised in its motto, ‘Will make reactionaries lose sleep, and will affirm all the anxieties of the present hour.’
The journal featured woodcuts, sculptures, paintings, poems, and articles on subjects as diverse as archaeology and the petroleum industry. Its first issue contains a calligram by none other than the muralist Diego Rivera–an important endorsement for a nascent avant-garde movement like Estridentismo. It also contained a poem by the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, which bolsters the international credibility of the Mexican movement.
Other important poets, writers, and artists to be featured over the three issues: Salvador Gallardo, Germán List Arzubide, Kyn Tanya, Juan José Tablada, and the U.S. photographer Edward Weston, whom the magazine inexplicably calls ‘Dwad Weston’ (Irradiador 3, inside cover).
The magazine’s aesthetic is a combination of Mexican images–such as Charlot’s woodcuts of indigenous workers–and modern technology, promoting the ‘Jazz Band, petroleum, New York. The city all polarized crackling in the radiotelephonic antennas…’ (‘Inaugural Irradiation’, 1).” (sourced from Kelly Scott Franklin’s blog)
Scans via The Jean Charlot Collection & the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Commentary by Evorio Escalante (video, 3 min, in Spanish)
Comment (0)Poems for a Thaler, No. 0–4 (1964–65) [Danish]
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The magazine Digte for en daler [Poems for a Thaler] introduced concrete poetry into Denmark. It was published in four issues, of which Issue 0 and Issue 2 can be read from both ends. Issue 2 includes Bjarne Sandstrøm’s poem “Ode til Claude Shannon” [Ode to Claude Shannon].
Edited by Vagn Steen and Hans-Jørgen Nielsen
via NUBUweb
More about the journal and each issue
Commentary (Tania Ørum, in Danish)
Issue 0 (Version 1)
Issue 0 (Version 2)
Issue 1
Issue 2 (Version 1)
Issue 2 (Version 2)
Issue 3 was not published
Issue 4