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- 70s
- offset print
- 13 × 15 cm
Andrzej Partum self-published his poetry between the early 1960s and the late 1970s. This was unusual in the People’s Republic of Poland and positioned the author outside of the institutional literary world. His poems are based on observations of simple mechanisms like a clock or a radio, yet their juxtapositions of expressions serve to question common associations. Though his work was compared to Dadaist literature, his connection of expressions in novel ways can be also be attributed to the influence of Miron Białoszewski. The five books published by Partum show his development towards concrete poetry and a type of work that he would call poetry of international record. Some of these books were prepared together with leading visual artists such as Henryk Stażewski or Alfred Lenica. D.M.