Untitled
2001 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper
overall (framed): 6 1/2 x 17 1/8 x 1" (16.5 x 43.5 x 2.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Emmett Williams
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BERLINART 1961�1987
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Printsequence
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975–1976
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Emmett Williams was an American visual poet and performer who pioneered concrete poetry and intermedia art in the postwar period. Working across typography, sound, and staged performance, he created linguistic compositions that treated words as formal objects rather than vessels of conventional meaning. His work appeared in Fluxus contexts and influenced generations of experimental poets and artists engaged with the materiality of language itself.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 26d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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