Lettrism papers, 1946-1965.

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Lettrism papers, 1946-1965.

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Letters and ephemera sent to editor Raymond Queneau concerning the avant-garde movement Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou. A letter, a clipping and the tract "Defense d'Isidore Isou" illustrate Isou's problems with obscenity charges brought against him in 1962. Three letters to Queneau and a copy of a 7 p. letter from Isou to Gaston Gallimard, dated 1962 and 1964, plead for continued support for the movement. Other materials by Isou are a handwritten card (1946), a cover design for a proposed book "Oeuvres complètes de Isidore Isou" (n.d.), a typescript titled "Domaine artistique integral" (n.d.), and the tract "Vive la retrospective surrealiste!" (1964), which denounces André Breton. The collection also includes three handwritten letters from Gabriel Pomerand concerning books Queneau sent him during his imprisonment (1949) and his hospitalization (1954), three typed letters from Jacques Spacagna regarding the issue of Bizarre that he and Maurice Lemaître are preparing, and two letters from Lemaître (1962, 1965). Ephemera consist of two announcements "Première manifestation lettriste" (n.d.) and "Le lettrisme" (n.d.), an invitation to a Lemaître event with ink drawings and stapled film strips (n.d.), the program "La poesie et la musique lettristes et aphonistes" (n.d.), and a 4 p. advertisement, with text by Noël Arnaud, for three recordings (1964).

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Gallimard, Gaston, 1881-1975

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Queneau, Raymond, 1903-1976

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Queneau (1903-1973), a French writer and editor, worked with the Surrealists as a young man before he founded "Oulipo" (Ouvroir de Littérature potentielle). As an editor at Gallimard publishers, he was influential in the publication and support of avant-garde movements and their proponents. Queneau began publishing Isou in the late 1940s and was supportive of him and his efforts to establish Lettrism. From the description of Lettrism papers, 1946-1965. (Getty Research Institute). Wo...

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...

Spacagna, Jacques

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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...

Arnaud, Noel Leo

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Noël Arnaud, 1919-2003, French writer and editor, associated with the surréalisme révolutionnaire movement. From the description of Noël Arnaud correspondence and writings, 1939-1999 (bulk 1947-1948). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702199050 ...

Pomerand, Gabriel, 1926-1972

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