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Concrete Poetics and Non-Art in John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard

Concrete Poetics and Non-Art in John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard This essay considers the work of John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh) as both concrete poetry and non- or anti-art, paying special attention to their statements of poetics from the early Fifties through to the early Seventies. Although their contribution to the various manifestations of mid-century concrete poetics is well recognised, this recognition has served to obscure their concurrent commitment to anti-art and ‘Neo-Dada’. The inclusion of concrete poetry among the movements of poetic modernism is much debated, and I argue that the accompanying anti-art gestures of these two writers further troubles that designation; for them, concrete poetry as non-art intimated a rejection of their modernist inheritance. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

Concrete Poetics and Non-Art in John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard

Gillott, Brendan C.
Modernist Cultures , Volume 18 (1): 26 – Feb 1, 2023
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Edinburgh University Press
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10.3366/mod.2023.0387
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This essay considers the work of John Cage and Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh) as both concrete poetry and non- or anti-art, paying special attention to their statements of poetics from the early Fifties through to the early Seventies. Although their contribution to the various manifestations of mid-century concrete poetics is well recognised, this recognition has served to obscure their concurrent commitment to anti-art and ‘Neo-Dada’. The inclusion of concrete poetry among the movements of poetic modernism is much debated, and I argue that the accompanying anti-art gestures of these two writers further troubles that designation; for them, concrete poetry as non-art intimated a rejection of their modernist inheritance.

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Modernist Cultures – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Feb 1, 2023

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