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La relación entre la poesía visual y la historieta en América Latina (1985-2009)

Abstract

Parallel to the development of writing, artistic forms of combining text and visual elements also developed. In this so-called visual poetry, current forms of writing and visual languages were combined. With the emergence of concrete poetry as a special form of visual poetry in the mid-20th century, both in German-speaking countries and in Brazil, as well as through the development of Pop Art and Fluxus, visual poetry was brought ever closer to the specific forms of expression of comics. The Brazilian poema/proceso group of poets, which also influenced visual poetry in Argentina and other Latin American countries, was particularly active in this process.

Based on the analysis of the works exhibited at the Bienal Internacional de Poesía Visual/Experimental between 1985 and 2009 and published in an illustrated book in 2017, it becomes clear how closely visual poetry and comic have been linked since the 1980s. In the visual poetry of the Latin American poets and artists analysed, there are numerous examples in which they have adopted concepts, structural elements and forms of expression of the comic and implemented them artistically in their works.