Decio Pignatari

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Birth Name: Décio Pignatari

Age: 97, born 20 August 1927

Country of origin: Brazil

Currently Residing In: Brazil

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Description: Décio Pignatari (Jundiaí, August 20, 1927) is a Brazilian poet, essayist and translator.[1] Since the 1950s, conducting experiments with poetic language, incorporating visuals elements and the fragmentation of words. Such verbal adventures culminated in Concretism, aesthetic movement that founded together with Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, with whom he edited the journals Noigandres and Invention and published the Theory of Concret Poetry (1965). As a theorist of communication, translated works of Marshall McLuhan and published the essay Information, Language and Communication (1968).[1] His poetic work is held in Poe ... (more)