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Lettrisme

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:

7eme Art: Evolution et Insuffusantes du Cinima Experimental. No.2/Sum / Isidore Isou., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48894-69932
Scope and Contents

This issue was edited by Frederique Devaux. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

A Complete set of UR / Heart Fine Art ; Altmann R ; Ben ; Gette PA ; Isou I ; Jessemin A ; Lemaitre M ; Roberdhay ; Sabatier R ; Spacagna J ; Studeny F., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43258-45317
Scope and Contents

This is a personal communication from Paul Robertson to Marvin Sackner offering a complete set of UR, "a rare artist's publication." It includes UR Nouvelle Series nrs. 1 - 7 , 1963 - 1966. for 7,950 UK pounds for all. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

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

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

Chaque Creation Nouvelle / Isou, Isidore., 1988

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Identifier: CC-08529-8701
Scope and Contents

This print is wholly black with a large calligraphic abstraction in the center overlying a dense field of hieroglyphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Concerto pour Oeil et Oreille / Isou, Isidore ; Dupont, Albert ; Tasiv, Genevieve., 1984

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Identifier: CC-08520-8691
Scope and Contents

Poems were composed by Isou, cover and aquatints were made by DuPont with the exception of one aquatint done by Tasiv. The first 10 copies of this book contain a duplicate set of prints on Japon paper. Two of the prints are portraits of DuPont's two daughters formed from dense accumulation of letters, numbers, and hieroglyphic elements. The sound poems were composed by Isou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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