Reg [ co-editor and contributor ]. Granta. Vol. 69. No. 1240.

Name: Reg [ co-editor and contributor ]. Granta. Vol. 69. No. 1240.
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Author: GADNEY

by GADNEY

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GADNEY, Reg [ co-editor and contributor ]. Granta. Vol. 69. No. 1240. Cambridge , November 28th, 1964. 4to. Original lithographic wrappers, designed by Oliver Hawkins, pp. 32, including the four-page pull-out supplement Catalogue of the first international exhibition of concrete, phonetic and kinetic poetry held in the Rushmore rooms, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge on grey paper (not pulled out), illustrations throughout, a very good copy. Very rare complete and in this condition, an important issue of this students' magazine. 'So in 1964 all four of us [Reg Gadney, Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver and Stephen Bann] decided to put on the exhibition which we called rather grandly the First International Exhibition of Concrete and Kinetic Poetry . The kinetic element was partly because Reg Gadney was a close friend of one of the leading kinetic artists in Paris, Frank Malina, but also because in discussing issues of poetic form with Ian Hamilton Finlay and others, both Mike and I had come to the conclusion that kinetic art provided a very interesting parallel track to concrete art and Concrete poetry, not only in that their origins were similar, the origins of the modern movement with people like Malevich and more recently Vasarely or Max Bill … ( From Cambridge to Brighton: Concrete poetry in Britain, an interview with Stephen Bann by Gustavo Grandal Montero, online). Ian Hamilton Finlay played an important role in this artistic literary scene in Cambridge at the time. Reg Gad

Binding: Hardcover

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