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

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".

188 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 24, 2007