Ian Hamilton Finlay in Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space at Getty Research Institute

28 March - 30 July 2017

Drawn principally from the Getty Research Institute's collection of prints, artists' books, journals, and manuscripts documenting the international concrete poetry movement, this exhibition focuses on the visual, verbal, and sonic experiments of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.

Featuring works by foundational figures Augusto de Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay, Concrete Poetry explores how these artists invented new forms such as cube poems and standing poems and continuously re-created their projects across media. Poetry by contemporaries including Henri Chopin, Ernst Jandl, Mary Ellen Solt, and Emmett Williams also plays a prominent role.

Read more

Image: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Star/Steer, 1965 (original poem). Lent by the Estate of Mary Ellen Solt. By courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay.