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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

A Propos d'Alain Satie / Isou, Isidore ; Satie A., 1973

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Identifier: CC-37265-39111
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1973

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Letterist Painting As Exemplified in the Oeuvre of Maurice Lemaitre / Failing, Patricia ; Lemaitre M ; Isou I ; Marinetti FT ; Schwitters K., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13256-13557
Scope and Contents

The paper in this book was presented at the first International Symposium on Letterism. Mentions that James Joyce was Isou's earliest inspiration. This book is stored in a Lemaitre box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Letterist Painting As Exemplified in the Oeuvre of Maurice Lemaitre in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Letterism / Failing, Patricia; Lemaitre M; Isou I; Marinetti FT; Schwitters K., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13284-13585
Scope and Contents

This manuscript, published as a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive, was presented at the First International Symposium on Letterism. In the introduction, Failing focuses on Isou and mentions that James Joyce was his earliest inspiration. Takes up Lemaitre work when he is 24 years old and preparing his picture novel, Canailles. Note that even in his early works, Lemaitre's images can be distinguished from Isou in that they are more refined and contain a greater variety of shapes and lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Ana Eccetera. No.6 / Martino Oberto, editor ; Martini SM ; Carrega U ; Vitone R ; Isou I ; Oberto A ; Oberto M., 1965

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Identifier: CC-24251-24703
Scope and Contents

Titled "Ana Etcetera" and includes supplement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Bientot les Lettristes (1946-1977) / Bernard Blistene, curator ; Frederic Acquaviva, curator ; Isou I ; Pomerand G ; Dufrene F ; Brau JL ; Wolman G ; Lemaitre M ; Debord G ; Spacagna J ; Altmann R ; Jessemin A ; Sabatier R ; Hachette M ; Satie A ; Guymer C ; Gillard JP ; Poyet F ; Broutin GP ; Curtay JP ; Roehmer W ; Caron AC., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54874-990303
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts lettriste publications and objects with annotations year by year over the period 1946 to 1977. The first page (cover) depicts a photographic reproduction of the first Lettriste manifesto (c.1946). A great many of the publications in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

De la Creation a la Societe Paradisiaque: Isidore Isou, la pensee judaique (Tome 1), 1998

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Identifier: CC-32880-34495
Scope and Contents

This copy is from the deluxe edition of five copies. The tirage of the ordinary edition without the drawing is not provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

De L'Impressionnisme Au Lettrisme (l'evolution des moyers de realisation de la peinture moderne par isidore isou) [Deluxe edition] / Isou, Isidore ; Delaunay R ; Delaunay S ; Picasso P ; Braque G ; Arp J ; Duchamp M ; Picabia F ; Heartfeld J ; Richter H ; Dali S ; Ernst M ; Ray M ; Masson A ; Miro J ; Bellmer H ; Isou I ; Studeny F ; Lemaitre M ; Poyet F ; Tarkieltaub J ; Hachette M ; Broutin GP ; Satie A ; Sabatier R ; Gillard JP ; Curtay JP ; Canal F ; Wolman G ; Darrell M ; Spacagna J ; Grimaud A., 1974

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Identifier: CC-54672-756352
Scope and Contents

This book is also designated Issue No.3 of a series entitled "Le Monde des grands musee." Isou discusses Lettrisme in the final 19 pages of this book that includes 54 b&w photographs of Lettrist works of art. Page 94 depicts Lemaitre's Sculpture inimaginable" (1964), a multiple redone in 1986 in 50 copies a work which is held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archive also holds the ordinary editon of this book (1973). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

De L'Impressionnisme Au Lettrisme (l'evolution des moyers de realisation de la peinture moderne par isidore isou) / Isou, Isidore ; Delaunay R ; Delaunay S ; Picasso P ; Braque G ; Arp J ; Duchamp M ; Picabia F ; Heartfeld J ; Richter H ; Dali S ; Ernst M ; Ray M ; Masson A ; Miro J ; Bellmer H ; Isou I ; Studeny F ; Lemaitre M ; Poyet F ; Tarkieltaub J ; Hachette M ; Broutin GP ; Satie A ; Sabatier R ; Gillard JP ; Curtay JP ; Canal F ; Wolman G ; Darrell M ; Spacagna J ; Grimaud A., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54671-58002
Scope and Contents

This book is also designated Issue No.3 of a series entitled "Le Monde des grands musee." Isou discusses Lettrisme in the final 19 pages of this book that includes 54 b&w photographs of Lettrist works of art. Page 94 depicts Lemaitre's Sculpture inimaginable" (1964), a multiple redone in 1986 in 50 copies which is held by the Sackner Archive. The Sackner Archive also holds the deluxe editon of this book (1974), one of 50 copies that includes a print by Isou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Dictature Lettriste, La. No.1 / Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand, editors ; Isou I ; Pomerand G ; Brasil ; Hirsch C ; Dobre C., 1946

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Identifier: CC-16084-16426
Scope and Contents

Other than Pomerand and Isou, the listing of 22 additional contributors to this issue are unfamiliar names. However, three of these contributors, e.g., Brasil, Claude Hirsch, and Charles Dobre contributed sound poems. This is the first Lettrist periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946

Douze Hypergraphies / Isou, Isidore; Tapie, Michel., 1964

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Identifier: CC-54641-57974
Scope and Contents

The spine of the folder is frayed and torn but the contents are in excellent condition. This is probably the finest example of varied experimental Lettrist writing. An essay on four mimeographed loose pages possibly by Isou and not a part of ths piece entitled"Quelques Certitudes Theologiques et Esthetiques" has been tucked into the cove runder the dust jacket.The ouside lithographs are identical from page to page and allread Isidoe Isou repetively accompamied by Lettrist hieroglphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Encylopaedia Acephalica / Bataille, Georges, editor ; Desnos R ; Leiris M ; Lebel JJ ; Masson A ; Isou I., 1995

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Identifier: CC-33173-34801
Scope and Contents

This is number three in the Arkhive series of documents of the avant-garde. It consists of three sets of reprinted texts written by writers associated with Georges Bataille, some of whom were members of his Acephale group and others were members of Surrealist groups in Paris and New York. What unites these texts is their form, which derives from that of dictionaries or encyclopaedias. The content of "Critical Dictionary" has several anti-religious themes as well as absurd texts with accompanying illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

From Letters to Lettrisme: The Ancient Origins of an Avant-garde Movement / Seaman D ; Isou I ; Sabatier R ; Satie A ; Roehmer W ; Poyet F ; Broutin GP ; Apollinaire G ; Lemaitre M., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33879-35550
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Hypergraphic Novels 1950-1984 / Isou, Isidore ; Frederic Acquaviva, curator ; Eram CN ; Acquaviva F ; Lemaitre M ; Broutin GP ; Sabatier R ; Magnusson J ; Fahlstrom O ; Seaman D ; Satie A., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55634-9999237
Scope and Contents

In Lemaitre's essay, he mentions that that only 200 bound copies of Les Journaux Des Dieux were delivered for distribution because there were insufficent funds to pay him - "which of course makes the saved volumes extremely valuable." The books as well as prints and printed plates depicted in this exhibition consisted of 'Les Journal des Dieux' [The God's Diaries], 'Initiation a la haute volupte' [Initiation to High Voluptuousness], and 'Jonas.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

La Creatique ou la Novatique (1941-1976) / Isou, Isidore., 2003

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Identifier: CC-58631-10001862
Scope and Contents

This book has a very dense text about Isou's philosophy without illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

La Peinture Lettriste / Isou, Isidore ; Satie, Alain ; Bermond, Gerard ; David Seaman, translator ; Pomerand G ; Sabatier R ; Hachette M ; Poyet F ; Broutin GP ; Roehmer W ; Caraven V ; James C ; Pourtales M., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35830-37590
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000