Eclipse - Hardcover

Riddell, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714509078 ISBN 13: 9780714509075

Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd, 1972

Synopsis

`Concrete poetry' is both word and picture. It explores the
correspondence between a written text and its visual presentation, and can
please the senses as well as stimulate the mind and arouse the emotions: a
multidimensional aesthetic. Eclipse is the first substantial one-man
collection of this comparatively new art form to be published in Britain.
In it, Alan Riddell weaves typography into telling shapes and significant
patterns that heighten or symbolise the verbal message.

About this title

About the Author

Born of Scottish parents in Townsville, Australia, in 1927, Alan
Riddell was educated in Scotland, and while working as a journalist in
Edinburgh he founded the poetry magazine Lines in 1952. His first book, The
Stopped Landscape--a collection of traditional poems--won a Scottish Arts
Council prize in 1968. He had his first one-man exhibition, of
screen-printed concrete poems, in Edinburgh in 1971. His concrete poetry
has also been exhibited in many group shows, including the ICA'S
Celebration of Guillaume Apollinaire in 1968, the Expo/Internacional de
Novisima Poesia in Buenos Aires in 1969, and concrete poetry at the
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1970. He has had concrete and experimental
poetry published in many magazines and newspapers, most notably in the
Sydney Morning, where his poem `The New Colossus' was used as a page symbol
throughout their coverage of the first Apollo landing on the moon in 1969.

Edition details

• Publisher: Calder Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714509078
• ISBN 13: 9780714509075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60