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VISUAL POETRY IN THE HUNGARIAN NEO-AVANT-GARDE ART

Similar to the trends of the international art scene, the relationship between language and visuality got scrutinized and reevaluated from the first half of the 1960s in Hungary as well. Hungarian culture had traditionally been centered around literature, but in the background of the ‘60s neoavantgarde positions stood, in almost all cases, poetic practices. The demand and the need to communicate (a predominant character of this generation) brought the appearance of visual poetry, concrete poetry, sound poetry, which opposed narrativity and …