{"title":"Mario Diacono","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"15-unedited-poems","title":"15 Unedited Poems","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rare artist's book is accompanied by the original promotional leaflet containing a brief biography of Mario Diacono and a quotation from Luigi Ballerini's introduction to the catalogue \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eItalian Visual Poetry \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Finch College Museum, New York, 1973):\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Mario Diacono is one of those who have carried extralinguistic research to its farthest possible implications...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince the late 1950s, Diacono has been actively engaged with concrete and non-verbal poetry, while participating in the development of the new artistic avant-gardes in both Italy and the United States. This remarkable publication may be read either as a sequence of fifteen autonomous poems or as a single composition whose interdependent pages form a visual, rather than textual, novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book unfolds as a rigorously structured sequence of descending square word grids, progressing from 15 × 30 words to 14 × 28, 13 × 26, and so forth, until the composition dissolves into a final grid of only 1 × 2 words. At once poetic and mathematical, this gradual reduction embodies the principles of concrete poetry, in which visual structures become the primary vehicle of meaning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54137615024467,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/MarioDiacono.png?v=1782741055"},{"product_id":"objections","title":"Objections","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAccording to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an objection is a reason or argument presented in opposition, a feeling or expression of disapproval, or a statement of opposition to an aspect of a judicial or other legal proceeding. Aligning his \"objtexts\" to these definitions, Mario Diacono creates a constellation of political and aesthetic statements, reuniting typographical compositions from two distinct series: \"Objections Milano '67,\" focused mainly on sculptural object poems, and \"Architexture Berkeley 1968,\" consisting of visual poetry and collage. A text-as-image artist's book that charts Diacono's poetic investigations in between two continents and two languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54366330028371,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Diacono.png?v=1784636414"},{"product_id":"book-of-eros-jct-no-3","title":"Book of Eros [JCT no. 3]","description":"","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54580712210771,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4372.png?v=1786633004"}],"url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/collections\/mario-diacono.oembed","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}