Alain Arias-Misson
Autor de Theatre of Incest
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Alain Arias-Misson
Confessions of a Murderer, Rapist, Fascist, Bomber, Thief or, A Year in the Journal of an Ordinary American (1974) 2 copias
The Visitor's Notebook: A Poet Who Came From Nowhere & is Travelling Somewhere Else, Revisits People, Places &… (2006) 1 copia
Concretism. A Poem 1 copia
The Public - A Madrid Poem 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Miembros
- 36
- Popularidad
- #397,831
- Valoración
- 1.8
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 11
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
in 1936 in Brussels) staged The Public A MADRID Poem in the Spanish capitol. He had friends carry the human-sized, white cardboard letters A, M, A, D, R, I, and D through the streets to generate words in an anagrammatic fashion from this matrix at various precise locations: in front of the parliament and imposing churches, in busy streets, and on popular squares. The performative and ephemeral literary form of the Public Poem that he had invented shortly before allowed him to write a text in the social context of a city. He describes it as an “enactment of language—fluid, enmeshed in the real-street processes.” In a country that was still dominated by the Fascist regime of dictator Francisco Franco, such a poetic guerrilla action of appropriation of urban space, neither announced nor officially authorized, was a risky undertaking. For this reason, it had to be “capable of vanishing, while preserving its eminent public, spectacular character.” This is the most complete documentation of this significant event ever published. It consists of thirty-six photographs with statements by the artist on their backsides that give insight into what happened in the course of the Public Poem. They are accompanied by two manifesto-like texts and the reproduction of a collage from 1969 based on a map of Madrid on which the stations of this Public Poem are marked.… (más)