Artist Collective - Internationale Manuskript Ausstellung Konkrete Poesie - 1961

Wuppertal: Kalender Verlag, 1961. Black card stock folder in size silk screened in white ink, with a white strip of paper pasted down on front cover, and a 10,4 x 35 cm (4.1 x 13.77") folded poem pasted inside. A promotional folder from one of the earliest concrete poetry exhibitions in 1961 featuring Williams’ cascading ‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (alphabet piece)’ on the cover and a German translation of ‘An Opera’ inside printed in microscopic type. Both of these pieces were subsequently published in other Fluxus publications such as Fluxkit in 1963 and 1964. In addition to Williams, other contributors included Carlo Belloli, Claus Bremer, Carlfriedrich Claus, Eugen Gomringer, Raoul Hausmann, Franz Mon, Diter Rot (Dieter Roth), Jürgen Morschel, André Thomkins, Gerhard Rühm, “Noigandres 4”, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Décio Pignatari, and Ronaldo Azeredo. A great example showcasing the historical intersection and overlap of DADA, Fluxus, and concrete poetry.