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The Visitor's Notebook: A Poet Who Came From Nowhere & is Travelling Somewhere Else, Revisits People, Places & Peri-peteia of the Last Forty Years

by Alain Arias-Misson

187 pages; Coil with fold-over flap; contains colour images; catalogue #06-2035; ISBN 1-4251-0278-6; US$190.52, C$219.10, EUR156.50, £109.55

For forty years Arias-Misson has explored possibilities for poetic communication in media that go from the written page to the automobile and the street-as-page.

About the Book

This book sets out four decades of the "Visual writing" if Alain Arias- Misson; visual writing or "visual poetry" was one of the last really spontaneous (non-commercial) world wide art movements- the "poetic" parallel of the Fluxus movement, and often shown with Fluxus, the famous avant-garde movement of the seventies. Visual poetry also has ties with conceptual art. The essence of visual poetry is the exploration of the visual and phonetic dimensions of the poetic word. Long before artists began using texts or words in their art, visual poetry explored this possibility already in the late fifties and early sixties. My work moved from experiments on the written page-known as "concrete Poetry" - to transform real automobiles into light and sound poetic "vehicles".

About the Author

Born in Brussels in the 2nd World War and growing up in the United States, Alain A. (Arias) Misson has been part of experimental American writing (novels) and European avant-garde art visual poetry since the sixties; living in Spain, Italy, Belgium, France as well the USA he has been a nomad, a Visitor of the arts as well of life and woman.

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