Radical poetry : aesthetics, politics, technology, and the Ibero-American avant-gardes, 1900-2015 / Eduardo Ledesma.

Author
Ledesma, Eduardo, 1972- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Description
x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic, and digital poetry that questions what the word "literary" means, what constitutes poetry, and how, if at all, visual and verbal arts should be differentiated. Radical Poetry examines how poets use the latest technologies (cinematography, radio, television, and software) to create poetry that self-consciously interrogates its own form, through close alliances with conceptual and abstract art, performance, photography, film, and new media. To do so, Ledesma draws on pertinent theories of metaphor, affect, time, space, iconicity, and cybernetics. Ledesma shows how José Juan Tablada (Mexico), Joan Salvat-Papasseit (Catalonia), Clemente Padín (Uruguay), Fernando Millán (Spain), Décio Pignatari (Brazil), Ana María Uribe (Argentina), and others turn words, machines, and, more recently, the digital into flesh, making word-objects "come alive" by assembling text to act and seem human, whether on the page, on walls, or on screens. -- Adapted from the cover. From the publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-330) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: An overview
    • The historical avant-gardes: futurist metaphors
    • The sixties neo-avant-gardes: a political turn
    • Digital poetry and metaphor's reprise
    • Modernisms on the move: mechanic, kinetic, cinematic
    • Letters and lettrism: deconstructing the new vanguards
    • Latin American digital poetry: animated embodiment
    • Modernismo: cannibalistic appropriation and advertisement
    • Concrete aesthetics: abstraction, mass media, and ideology
    • Luso-Brazilian e-poetry and performance
    • Conclusion: Toward a radical aesthetics?.
    Other title(s)
    Aesthetics, politics, technology, and the Ibero-American avant-gardes, 1900-2015
    ISBN
    • 9781438462011 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 1438462018 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 9781438462004 (paperback)
    • 143846200X (paperback)
    LCCN
    2016000471
    OCLC
    944179567
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