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Concrete Poetics and Non-Art in John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard.

  • Published In: Modernist Cultures, 2023, v. 18, n. 1. P. 68 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Gillott, Brendan C. 3 of 3

Abstract

This essay considers the work of John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh) as both concrete poetry and non- or anti-art, paying special attention to their statements of poetics from the early Fifties through to the early Seventies. Although their contribution to the various manifestations of mid-century concrete poetics is well recognised, this recognition has served to obscure their concurrent commitment to anti-art and 'Neo-Dada'. The inclusion of concrete poetry among the movements of poetic modernism is much debated, and I argue that the accompanying anti-art gestures of these two writers further troubles that designation; for them, concrete poetry as non-art intimated a rejection of their modernist inheritance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modernist Cultures. 2023/02, Vol. 18, Issue 1, p68
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:20411022
  • DOI:10.3366/mod.2023.0387
  • Accession Number:163163394
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