Letters

Japanese: lettrisme
Letters

…After Symbolism, modern poetry attempted to recover the evocative power and material energy of the audiovisual elements of language, giving rise to experiments such as the sound poetry of Scheerbarth and Morgenstern, the free speech of the Futurists, the abstract poetry of Dada, object poetry, and simultaneous poetry. These were mediated by the concrete art of Kandinsky and Max Bill (1908-94) and the lettrisme of Isidore Isou (1925- ), and became the concrete poetry movement after World War II, which made language independent of grammar and meaning and liberated it as a naked material to time, space, and the world structure. It was broadly divided into three fields: visual, auditory, and kinetic, and spread throughout Eastern and Western Europe and North and South America. …

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Japanese:

…近代詩は象徴主義以後,言語の視聴覚的要素の喚起力と物質的エネルギーを回復しようとし,シェーアバルト,モルゲンシュテルンの音響詩,未来派の自由話法,ダダの抽象詩,物体詩,同時詩などの実験を生んだ。これらが,カンディンスキーやビルMax Bill(1908‐94)の〈具体芸術(コンクリート・アート)〉,イズーIsidore Isou(1925‐ )らの〈レトリスムlettrisme〉に媒介されて,第2次大戦後,言語を文法や意味から自立させ,裸形の物質として時間と空間,世界構造へと解放するコンクリート・ポエトリーの運動となった。それは視覚的,聴覚的,キネティックの3分野に大別され,東西ヨーロッパや南北アメリカにひろがった。…

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