Secret poetics

Title:

Secret poetics / Hélio Oiticica ; translated from Portuguese and with an introduction by Rebecca Kosick ; afterword by Pedro Erber

Author:

Oiticica, Hélio, 1937-1980

Resource Type:

Book

Language:

English and Portuguese

Imprint:

Chicago, IL : Soberscove Press ; Brooklyn, New York : Winter Editions, 2023
©2023

Description:

112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Language Note:

Text primarily in English, Notebook and Secret Poetics sections in English with parallel Portuguese original.

Note:

First edition 1500 copies.

Summary:

"Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) is widely considered one of Brazil's most significant artists, and his influence is felt across a range of disciplines including painting, film, installation and participatory art. He is well known as a key founder of the interdisciplinary movement known as Neoconcretismo, launched in Rio de Janeiro in 1959 with the collaboration of artists and writers including Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape and Ferreira Gullar. Between 1964 and 1966, moving out of his Neoconcretist period, Oiticica wrote a series of lyrical poems entitled Poética Secreta (Secret Poetics), and he reflected in a private notebook on their significance for his wider practice as an artist. Despite Oiticica's global fame, his "secret" poems are almost unknown and have never been published as a collection. This bilingual edition, with accompanying essays by translator Rebecca Kosick and critic Pedro Erber, uncovers the significance of poetry for Oititica's art and shows its importance to his thinking on participation, sensation and memory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hélio Oiticica: secret poet / by Rebecca Kosick -- Notebook -- Secret poetics -- Images -- Oiticica's phenomenological lyric; or, The deintellectualization of art / by Pedro Erber.

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-112)

Subjects:

• Oiticica, Hélio, - 1937-1980 - Translations into English

Genre/Form:

• Poetry

Contributors:

• Kosick, Rebecca
• Erber, Pedro R.

ISBN:

9781940190327 and 1940190320

OCLC no:

1380428765

Permanent Link

https://library.ccs.bard.edu/catalog/1380428765