SANTA CLARITA – Mary Ellen Solt, who used letter and word arrangements to enhance the meaning of a poem and was a leader in the concrete poetry movement, has died. She was 86. Solt died June 21 in ...
Los Angeles Letter, a 1968 painting by Michael Morris, encourages you to move back and forth in front of it, catching furtive glimpses of yourself. Rendered in narrow vertical stripes of blue paint, ...
Humankind may struggle to find the right words to describe thoughts and feelings but for concrete poets like Scotland's Ian Hamilton Finlay, who once said, ''The mind will always try to make words out ...
What's on view in a terrifically lively show at the Getty Research Institute has gone by various names — concrete poetry is the most common, but also visual poetry, spatial poetry and imaged words, ...
Finlay's garden Little Sparta is one of the wonders of 20th-century art. Now a collection of his artworks has been brought indoors at the Tate. James Campbell finds clarity and lyricism in the work of ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently launched by Hayward Publishing, The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century ...
CONCRETE enabled the ancient Romans to erect structures that surpassed in grandiosity even the marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy—and in most of Europe, where ...
Mary Ellen Solt, a poet and poetry critic who often arranged words on the page in a visual graphic, resulting in such works as “Forsythia,” a poem that looks like a flowering shrub, has died. She was ...
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