Isidore Isou contributes an essay written in 1968 which includes an "Introduction au Lettrisme," "La Photographie Ciselante," "La Photographie Lettriste et Hypergraphique," "La Photographie Supertemporelle," and "L'Avenir de la Photographie." The photographs mainly depict images captured by the camera from life or collage and subsequently treated with paint, ink, and/or scratched additions to the negative or the photograph itself. This copy is one of 20 reserved for the contributors which in this was Maurice Lemaitre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. The book also reproduces photographs and maquettes of original furniture by Satie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book reproduces photographs and maquettes of original furniture by Satie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book reproduces photographs and maquettes of original furniture by Satie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawings have been executed in Satie's typical style. The photographs, including three self-portraits, depict scenes of New York, Stonehedge and Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing consists of a spray painted surface, a portrait of Isadore Isou, abstract letter forms, a small collage addition of Satie's work and a handprinted Lettrist text. The text is subtitled "de la sclerose dans un monde artistique...Reponse aus detracteurs de l'art contemporain." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Satie uses the following magic squares in this book, viz., SATOR, DATUR, OPALE, SATIE, and SIGNE. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This production by 13 Lettrist artists has been described as the most important of the illustrated Lettrist books, a very "soignee realization," of which only a few rare complete examples exist. Georges Visat provides an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Francesco Conz contributes an afterward "Lettrisme: The Forgotten Avant Garde." Roland Sabatier wrote about Isou's novel "Initiation a la Haute Volupte" (Initiation inot High Sensual Pleasure) and also contributed an essay "Poetry and Music:From Lettrisme to Excordism through Aphonism and the Infinitesimal." The fabric prints of Isou published by Conz, that are reproduced in this book, are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mentions that he has sent the book that the Sackners requested and includes a small ink drawing on the bottom half of the letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In one copy, there is a letter enclosed from Scott Helmes to the Sackners mentioning that he didn't get to see much of the show because the gallery didn't open on time. There is also a newspaper clipping of a review by Alan Artner, the art critic of the Chicago Tribune. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The individual works in this book are not identified nor signed. All the signatures are written on the inside page of the unbound cover page. Man Ray's contribution is an aquatint with imagery of abstract markings. The unbound pages in the book are sound poems written by Sabatier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover of this catalogue depicts a lettrist drawing by Isou dated 1944. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.