Manuscripts by Isidore Isou and Maurice Lemaître, 1940-1970.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Manuscripts by Isidore Isou and Maurice Lemaître, 1940-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78558331

Publication manuscripts and working drafts by Isidore Isou, founder of Lettrism, and Maurice Lemaître. Isou's work included: Essai pour une métaphysique de l'image et du nom; Pentue o noria desvaltose a falzies; la Réussite; Préface à Anna; le Salon d'automne a refusé d'exposer les peintures lettristes; Notes; Carcasse théorique v. discours de la méthode pour bien conduire l'amour et chercher la vérité dans la science; and Contre la confusion dans la poésie phonétique. Also included are several versions of Lemaître's le Boulevard du surréalisme.

ca. 0.5 linear ft.

Getty Research Institute

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8216805

Getty Research Institute

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Isou, Isidore.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd518t (person)

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...

Lemaître, Maurice, 1926-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g15xh (person)

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...