Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Art of Writing (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) - Softcover

Bessa, Antonio Sergio

9780810122987: Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Art of Writing (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810122987 ISBN 13: 9780810122987

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2008

Oyvind Fahltstrom: The Art of Writing serves as both an informative and entertaining introduction to the Brazilian-born Swedish poet-artist, one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures, and as a valuable critical analysis of some of his most important works.

Fahlstrom (1928-76) created a body of work as profoundly political as it is aesthetic, spanning two tumultuous decades in the avant-garde and comprising concrete poetry, manifestos, plays, performance, filmmaking, paintings, multiple prints, sculpture, and installations. Bessa focuses on how Fahlstrom's early experiments with concrete poetry influenced his later works in the visual arts and offers close readings of his seminal work Bord, his painting series Ade-Ledic-Nander, his interactive painting The Planetarium, and his radio play Birds in Sweden.

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Book Description:

Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish poet-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures. His work, as profoundly political as it is aesthetic, spans two tumultuous decades in the avant-garde and comprises concrete poetry, manifestos, plays, performance, filmmaking, paintings, multiple prints, sculpture, and installations. Oyvind Fahltstrom: The Art of Writing serves as both as an informative and entertaining introduction to the artist and as a valuable critical analysis of some of his most important works. Bessa focuses on how Fahlstrom's early experiments with concrete poetry influenced his later works in the visual arts and offers close readings of his seminal work Bord, his painting series Ade-Ledic-Nander, his interactive painting The Planetarium, and his radio play Birds in Sweden.

About the Author:

Antonio Segio Bessa is the director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Musuem of the Arts. He is the coeditor, with Odile Cisneros, of Novas, a collection of writings by Haroldo de Campos also published by Northwestern University Press.

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