Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959–1979

Alex Balgiu & Mónica de la Torre, Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959–1979, Primary Information, 2020

An anthology of concrete and visual poetry by 50 women artists and writers from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United States, made between 1959 and 1979. It starts from Mirella Bentivoglio's 1978 Venice Biennale exhibition 'Materializzazione del linguaggio'. It adds work from other milieus that play with the visual and sonic sides of language. Artists include Mira Schendel, Ilse Garnier, Mirtha Dermisache, Susan Howe, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Katalin Ladik.