Lettrist movement papers, 1949-1988.

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Lettrist movement papers, 1949-1988.

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This assembled archive of approximately 50 assorted items is a portion of a larger acquisition documenting the development of the Lettrist movement. Included here are manuscripts, tracts, exhibition catalogs, posters and printed ephemera relating to Isidore Isou, the founder of the movement, and other key members such as Maurice Lemaî̂tre, Alain Satié, and Jean-Louis Brau, as well as a range of collaborative works. The archive includes eight items by Isou mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, one regarding the "brain-pollution" of a former colleague, another a "communiqué" to President Giscard d'Estaing. There are nine items by Isou's compatriot, Maurice Lemaître, including a tract arguing that Isou should be awarded the Nobel Prize. A collection highlight is a set of brilliantly colored issues of Revue littéraire letteriste, each one of which is a poster-size visual "novel" by a different artist/writer. There is also an art object, Les mots parlent (1971) which consists of a partially opened sardine can containing an advertisement for wine that has been cut into pieces like a jigsaw puzzle.

5.75 linear feet (3 boxes, 2 flat files)

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Brau, Jean Louis.

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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poet Isidore Isou who, with the help of Gabriel Pomerand, distributed leaflets in Paris announcing that letters had superseded words as the avant-garde's preferred medium.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...

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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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...