Title: Poesías
Description: First manufactured editorial version of the unpublished book "Poesías" the work with visual and concrete poetry by poet, performance artist, book/mail artist and collectorUlises Carrión (b. México 1941- d. Amsterdam 1989). The original was a typed manuscript and punctuation signs were added later manually. Artist Ulises Carrión belonged to a generation of 20th century writers that distrusted language changing the traditional form of books in its tactile, visual, and intellectual elements while using text and paper as innovative media for their artistic expressions. Carrión is considered the inventor of the contemporary Artist Book, a concept he created when he favored the expressive faculty of structure over the meaning of words, creating what he named "obras-libro". Carrión also opened the first artist book store "Books and So" in Amsterdam. Co-edition with MartaHellión.
Subjects: Artists̓ books, Artists' books, Konkrete Poesie, Skripturale Kunst
Places: Mexico
People: Ulises Carrión (1941-1989)