Before <em>Il Verri:</em> Milanese Avant-Garde Magazines of the 1940s and 1950s

The essay discusses the characteristics of some small magazines (bordering on illustrated leaflets) published in Milan in the 1950s that supported avant-garde art. MAC (Concrete Art Movement), Spatialism, and Nuclear Art spread a lively, in-progress idea not only of artistic practices but also of the link between art and literature, with particular attention to the potential of concrete poetry. The birth of the magazine Il Verri in 1956 marks a slowdown in this expansion and creates the conditions for the poetics of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde, with its ‘political’ loyalties and exclusions.