From Language Poetry to the New Concretism: The Evolution of the Avant-Garde

The article examines the trajectory of Western avant-garde in 20th century, connection with group formations characteristic these movements. Movements such as Russian and European Dadaism are classified according to various criteria, their rise fall is traced. After a broad overview movements, first part essay analyzes cases modern movement “Language Poetry”. then goes on detail theoretical principles “language movement” founded late 1970s, explore how this radical has developed over past twenty years. Language poetics, closely associated French poststructuralist aesthetics Marxist ideology, was gradually assimilated into mainstream, its stylistic features were absorbed more traditional modes. now mostly over, but it produced number important poets Susan Howe Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian Steve McCaffery. These associate themselves outside language they used be eventually arriving own styles. In last article, author refers Latin American concretism phenomenon that synthesizes achievements neo-avant-garde.