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	Lettrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lettrism (also spelled Letterism) was a revolutionary art form initiated by Isidore Isou.
		Some commentators claim Lettrism was a response to what the Lettrists saw as André Breton's control of Surrealism, as well as an attempt to make poetry more popular.
		Isou noted that Dada had chiseled art down to the word, while Lettrism was intended to refine it to the letter (hence its name).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lettrism (535 words)

	zinzin \| Lettrisme, or Lettrism
		Lettrism (also referred to as Letterism) was an artistic style pursuing the hyper-minimalist refinement of art to its simplest and purest form.
		Lettrism was a response to what the Lettrists saw as André Breton’s control of Surrealism, as well as an attempt to make poetry more popular.
		Isou noted that Dadaism had chiseled art down to the word, while Lettrism was intended to refine it to the letter (hence its name).
	www.zinzin.com /2002/05/lettrisme-or-lettrism (275 words)

	Philosophical Fortnights: Lettrisme (Style réseau mondial)
		Lettrism, like all movements worthy of the name, engendered schisms and apostasies.
		On Lettrism, see Greil Marcus, Lipstick traces: A secret history of the twentieth century (Harvard, 1989; Margaret Moser, “Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade”, Austin Chronicle 10 Sep 1999) for a brief account of Lettrism, the Lettrist International (the “left wing” of Lettrism, and its offspring, the Situationist International.
		Lettrism: includes a translation of Guy-Ernest Debord & Gil J. Wolman, “Pourquoi le lettrisme” by Leutha Blissett; the original, from Potlatch 1 (1955), in French at Nothingness.org and at La Revue des ressources
	tlonuqbar.typepad.com /phfn/2005/04/lettrisme_style.html (2375 words)

	Lettrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lettrism (also spelled Letterism) was an artistic style pursuing the hyper-minimalist refinement of art to its simplest and purest form.
		In Lettrist terminology this was just one form of hypergraphics or super-writing - ie the chisselling the form of writing to a or the point at which it can begin to be amplified once again.
		Isidore Isou (born as Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, 1928, in Boto?ani, Romania) is a poet, film critic, visual artist and founder of Lettrisme.
	www.jahsonic.com /Lettrism.html (153 words)

	The Situationist International Text Library/Why Lettrism?
		Whatever the impostures of the Lost Generation, which showed itself between the last war and today, it is condemned to debunk itself.
		Nevertheless, having recognized the bankruptcy of the critical thought that these frauds have found before them, Lettrism has contributed to their more rapid oblivion.
		It is by no means strange that the presentation of an Ionesco, re-making several scenic excesses of Tzara thirty years later and twenty times more stupid, does not get a quarter of the distracted attention.
	library.nothingness.org /articles/SI/en/display/6 (2278 words)

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		A collection of letters and ephemera belonging to editor Raymond Queneau, one of the founders of "Ouilipo." The materials concern the avant-garde movement Lettrism, and comprise correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, and ephemera.
		Queneau began publishing Isidore Isou in the late 1940s and was supportive of him and his efforts to establish Lettrism.
		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.
	www.oac.cdlib.org /view/mets/vp/tf767nb1vp.mets.xml (324 words)

	Lettrisme - Situationist International Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Abstract:, Lettrisme was an avant-garde event whose goal was to use language expression to the fullest, across media, including literature, fine arts, film,
		In common with lettrisme and concrete poetry, there is a recognition of the Inismo is indeed similar to lettrisme, and came after it, but it has the
		Thus was born Lettrisme, which may or for proving a point, The disbelieving judge dispatched the "Pope of Lettrisme" to a psychiatrist for examination.
	pagesfindout.com /psfo/lettrisme.html (430 words)

	References and Notes for Lettrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He coached the "super-baby" into walking, biking, talking, reading, writing, drawing as soon as he could and, later pumped into the boy all the knowledge he held.
		A more detailed study in French of Lettrism by Curtay can be found in his La Poesie Lettriste (Paris: Éditions Seghers, 1974).
		Several essays examining Lettrist art can be found in the special issue 'Lettrisme: Into the Present' of Visible Language, Volume XVII Number 3 (Cleveland, OH: Merald E. Wrolstad, Summer 1983).
	cotati.sjsu.edu /spoetry/folder4/ng441a.html (462 words)

	Visual Poetry from Clemente Padin's "Art and People: Latin American Art In Our Time"
		At that point we see its "expressionist" bent, which derives directly from French lettrism and, prior, from the "words in liberty" of the futurist Marinetti.
		Also, there is the "concretist" bent, derived from the visual concretism of the School of Ulm (Max Bill) and, earlier, from the abstract-geometric movement De Stijl, above all, Mondrian.
		In this formal aspect, visual poetry, stemming from lettrism, had already freed itself of signification, although in general the forms it utilized were letters next to other visual elements.
	www.concentric.net /~Lndb/padin/lcpapvis.htm (490 words)

	[ information-center.be \| Lettrism Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Please feel free to look around, especially at the blue links as they contain additional information.
		Some of the information in this article or section has not been verified and might not be reliable.
		Hyperarticle "Why Lettrism?" along with notes to the conference.
	information-center.be /Lettrism.html (630 words)

	David Seaman 's Page
		Lettrism is an avant-garde movement that thrived in the second half of the 20th century and still continues today.
		It is based on use of letters and signs as the building blocks of visual poetry and art.
		I am currently working on a book on Lettrism, as well as a journal of American lettrism.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~dseaman/research.html (803 words)

	Lettrism Encyclopedia Articles @ PeriodsAndStyles.com (Periods and Styles) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Guy Debord and the Situationists
		The other great important libertarian group which came to prominence during the May-June events in France in 1968 were the Situationists.
		They originated in a small band of avante-garde artists and intellectuals influenced by Dada, Surrealism and Lettrism.
		The post-war Lettrist International, which sought to fuse poetry and music and transform the urban landscape, was a direct forerunner of the group who founded the magazine Situationiste Internationale in 1957.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Obituary/debord.html (1487 words)

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