Lettrist movement papers 1949-1988

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Lettrist movement papers 1949-1988

Assorted material from the Lettrist movement, including manuscripts, printed essays and tracts, and exhibition ephemera.

5.75 linear feet; (3 boxes, 2 flatfile folders)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6650198

Getty Research Institute

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Isou, Isidore.

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Isidore Isou (born 1925 or 1928), French author, originally from Romania, founder of the Lettrism movement. Fondements pour la transformation intégrale du théâtre was published in 1953 (Paris: Bordas). From the description of Isidore Isou drafts for Fondements pour la transformation intégrale du théâtre, circa 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702200347 French sound poet and artist, a founder of Lettrism. From the description of Letters sent, 1959. (Gett...

Satié, Alain 1944-

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Brau, Jean Louis

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Lemaître, Maurice, 1926-

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Maurice Lemaître, born Moïse Bismuth in Paris in 1926, was a leading voice of the mainstream Lettrism movement in the 1950s and 1960s, and continues to be one of its most active and outspoken proponents to this day. Lemaître joined the Lettrism movement in 1949/1950, four years after it was founded by Isidore Isou. He produced several important theoretical works of the early 1950s, including Sistème de Notasion pour les lètries (1952), Qu'est-ce que le Lettrisme? (1954) and Bilan Le...

Mouvement lettriste

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Lettrism was founded in Paris in 1945 by Isidore Isou. From the description of Lettrist movement papers, 1949-1988. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78314166 Biographical/Historical Note Lettrism was founded in 1945 by Romanian poet Isidore Isou who, with the help of Gabriel Pomerand, distributed leaflets in Paris announcing that letters had superseded words as the avant-garde's preferred medium. In 1946 t...