Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1910433004 ISBN 13: 9781910433003

Publisher: Black Dog Press, 2015

Synopsis

Morris? interest in concrete poems underlies his desire to develop the relationship between one medium and another?this was a period in which his work shifted from primarily painting to photography, sculpture, performance, and video. Letters, a series of six painted triptychs executed in the late 1960s that form the basis of this book, embody this interdisciplinary thinking. Incorporating vertical mirrors, they were imagined not only as objects in themselves, expressing the pivotal role light plays in painting, but also as ?props?, before which a dance performance might take place. The book features essays on Morris? ambitious paintings of this period alongside texts on international and Canadian concrete poetry as represented by the work of Ugo Carrega, Henri Chopin, Lily Greenham, Jiri´ Kola´r, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Steve McCaffery and Gerhard Ru¨hm.

About this title

About the Author:

Scott Watson: Scott Watson (Vancouver, Canada) is director/curator of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Jamie Hilder: Jamie Hilder is a an artist and critic based in Vancouver. He has shown and published work in the United States and Europe, and maintains an active collaborative practice with Vancouver artist and educator, Brady Cranfield.

Michael Turner: Michael Turner is a writer of fiction, criticism, and song based in Vancouver. His books include Hard Core Logo (1993), The Pornographer’s Poem (1999) and 8x10 (2009).

William Wood: William Wood is an art historian and critic concentrating on the history of conceptual art and contemporary work in photography, moving pictures and installation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1910433004
• ISBN 13: 9781910433003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192