The Radical Legacy of N.H. Pritchard’s Concrete Poetry | Frieze

From Steven Shearer’s first UK exhibition in seven years to an exhibition by Yvonne Mabs Francis exploring mental collapse Watch standout moments, artworks and highlights from the fair, taking place at The Shed through Sunday May 17 A new exhibition at Peter Freeman Inc. showcases how the artist ignited ‘a revolution that’s going to change the form of the book’ For updates on the latest Frieze news and events. Concrete poetry begs us to consider that before writing forms a coherent articulation, it articulates itself as a geometric form, an inexorably visual shape on the page. Not only this: that shape may become the very thing that vitiates the coherence of the articulation, that undermines or undoes the legibility presupposed therein, exerting a mutinous pressure on reading that is strong enough to break the very edifice of lexical and syntactical representation. Take the following examples from the oeuvre of the late 20th-century Black concrete poet N. H. Pritchard, whose collages,

From Steven Shearer’s first UK exhibition in seven years to an exhibition by Yvonne Mabs Francis exploring mental collapse Watch standout moments, artworks and highlights from the fair, taking place at The Shed through Sunday May 17 A new exhibition at Peter Freeman Inc. showcases how the artist ignited ‘a revolution that’s going to change the form of the book’ For updates on the latest Frieze news and events. Concrete poetry begs us to consider that before writing forms a coherent articulation, it articulates itself as a geometric form, an inexorably visual shape on the page. Not only this: t