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In this book, Isou writes an essay about Satie's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The duplicate copy does not have folds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Luiggi used the initial 'E.' for his surname in this catalogue. Several works depicted in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. The loose sheet lists the prices for the works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was a collaboration among the artists, the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) and the Galerie Le Chanjour (Nice). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

David Seaman curated this exhibiton and contributed an essay tracing the routes of Lettrisme to the present day. The exhibition was reviewed in the Statesboro Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each stylized playing card depicts a photographic portrait of a lettrist artist with varied lettrist symbols and/or calligraphic styles that are printed directly on the photograph. These are associated with the visual works of the specific artists. Some markings are also directly painted onto the photographs. For some artists, the letters of their names appear as negative spaces on the photographs. Isidore Isou contributed an introduction to this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The texts written by Isou, Satie and Bermond enlarge on the Lettrist philosophy. The book is illustrated with documentary photographs and original Lettrist works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 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.

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.

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