Concrete poetry

Japanese: コンクリート･ポエトリー（英語表記）concrete poetry

Concrete poetry. Language has grammatical and rhetorical elements such as meaning, proposition, context, and metaphor, as well as the aural element of sound and the visual element of 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.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

具体詩。言語には意味，命題，文脈，比喩等の文法的･修辞的要素のほか，音声の聴覚性と文字の視覚性がある。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。

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