CONCRETE enabled the ancient Romans to erect structures that surpassed in grandiosity even the marble temples of Greece and the brick palaces of Babylon. Today in Italy—and in most of Europe, where ...

In the 1950s and ’60s, the counterculture scene, the introduction of typewriters, and a new interest in typographic innovations all converged to form the concrete poetry movement. Visual poets like ...

Ian Hamilton Finlay, interior of “4 Sails” (1966) (image courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay) Tug, fug, chug, glug — such are the rhyming words used by the writer and artist Ian Hamilton ...

Students in Professor Greaney’s graduate course on concrete art and concrete poetry curated an exhibition in the CU Art Museum. The exhibition OBJECT:COLOR brings together seven artists’ works that ...

Dom Sylvester Houdéard was both a Catholic priest and a member of the counter-culture art movement in the 1960s. His abstract concrete poems are still significant to the movement today.