The concrete poetry movement was a response to early modernist poetry—its emphasis on subjectivity, abstraction, and meter—which the members of this avant-garde believed to be antiquated and ...

And Clark’s metal Critters (1960–64), one of which is also featured, convey a similar tactile sensibility. Concrete and Neo-Concrete art also impacted other movements and media.

Camille Graeser was a Swiss painter and a key figure in the Concrete Art movement. Originally trained as an interior architect in Stuttgart, he worked in graphic and product design before fully ...

Solt credited the concrete poetry movement’s foundations to the Swiss poet Eugen Gomringer as well as to the Noigandres Group in Brazil, which was established in the years after World War II.