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Letters sent, 1959.

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Two letters addressed to Arthur Petronio concern their mutual interest and work in "verbophonique." Prompted by Petronio's recent article on Lettrisme, Isou informs him that both his facts and understanding of the movement are incorrect. Isou provides him with a list of errors. In a 17 page letter to Joel Picton, Isou intends to shed some light on what Lettrisme is all about. He provides definitions of terms such as "poesie nouvelle," "metagraphie," and "sculptures de lettres" and also tries to establish precise dates for the inception of each of these concepts. Isou repeatedly names his colleagues in the Lettrism movement, especially Micheline Hachette, Maurice Lemaître, Gabriel Pomerand, and Alain Satié. He refers in this letter to a vitriolic polemic in which he is engaged with Michel Vox.

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Pétronio, Arthur

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Arthur Petronio, composer, poet and editor, was born in Switzerland in 1897. His father was Fregoli, a music hall artist, and Arthur was trained as a classical musician. He shared in the World War I era avant-garde fascination with sound poetry, visual poetry and the music of ambient sounds, and under the influence of Kandinsky and Le Fauconnier developed in 1919 a verbophonic theory for incorporating vowel sounds as elements of a musical score. From the description of Arthur Petroni...

Satié, Alain 1944-

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Pomerand, Gabriel, 1926-1972

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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...

Vox, Michel.

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Picton, Joel.

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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...

Hachette, Micheline 1938-....

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