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	Lettrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The stark simplicity of Lettrist art, while still very much abstract, stood in contrast to the sometimes meandering Surrealist movement; but both shared their roots in Dada.
		The general ethic of Letterism was eventually applied to film, in Gil J. Wolman's piece "L’Anticoncept", which consisted of a fluctuating ball of light that was screened onto a large balloon.
		A split in the movement lead to the formation of the Lettrist International, and to the movements of the Ultra-Lettrists and the Situationists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lettrism (457 words)

	Guy Debord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guy Debord (December 28, 1931-November 30, 1994) was a member of the Lettrist International, Socialisme ou Barbarie and a founder and chief essayist of the Situationist International (SI).
		The SI initially drew membership from the Lettrists - a post-Surrealist group of writers and poets dedicated to the destruction of bourgeois values by reducing the written word to onomatopoeic syllables.
		However, the SI broke with the formal aims of the Lettrists and, after subsuming much of their membership, were fully established in their own right by 1959 after an intense period of theoretical analysis, publications and expulsions of various members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Debord (615 words)

	Lettrists attack Charlie Chaplin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The members of the Lettrist movement are united on the basis of new principles of knowledge and each keeps his independence as far as the details of the application of these principles.
		We are ashamed that the world today lacks more profound values than these, which are secondary and "isolatrous" of the "artist." Only the Lettrists who signed the tract against Chaplin are responsible for the extreme and confused content of their manifesto.
		We, the Lettrists who were opposed to this tract of our comrades from the beginning, smile at the maladroit expression of the bitterness of their youth.
	www.notbored.org /lettrist-disavowal.html (263 words)

	Lettrism
		The Lettrist worked on the level of the letter at the heart of what they believed to be an experiential language that was to be the basis of their new culture.
		Much of the bulk of Lettrist activities moved toward visual manifestations of expression in the later years, with a great deal of activity in painting and film [2].
		The SI (and it's earlier manifestation as the Lettrist International (LI)) proposed a number of social critiques or 'situations' by which a new socio-political organization of world culture based around the ever-changing principles of contemporary art would take the place of the materialistic, worn-out economies of the past.
	cotati.sjsu.edu /spoetry/folder4/ng441.html (1073 words)

	dbqp: visualizing poetics: The Beguiling Lettrists and the Crisis of Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Returning the favor to themselves, the concretists appear to have systematically isolated the Lettrists; in the four major anthology of concrete poetry, I can recall but a single Lettrist work, and it is one of the most effective poems in any of the anthologies.
		Even today Lettrists in their twenties continue to follow the precepts of the movement as laid down by Isou and enhanced by his protégé and co-conspirator, Maurice Lemaître.
		The Lettrists’ revolutionary stance concerning art and the world (they claimed to have fomented the 1968 student revolution in Paris) devolved at some point into Situationism, a pointless revolutionary movement most famous (and successful) in my mind for the creation of the concept of détournement, but that’s a topic for another day.
	dbqp.blogspot.com /2004/05/beguiling-lettrists-and-crisis-of.html (923 words)

	Report on the Construction of Situations (Debord)
		In the Lettrist International the quest for new methods of intervention in everyday life was pursued amidst sharp struggles among different tendencies.
		From 1952 to 1955 the Lettrist International, after some necessary purges, continually moved toward a sort of absolutist rigor leading to an equally absolute isolation and ineffectuality, and ultimately to a certain immobility, a degeneration of the spirit of critique and discovery.
		Lettrist International participants included Serge Berna, Michèle Bernstein, Jean-Louis Brau, Ivan Chtcheglov, Mohamed Dahou, Guy Debord, Abdelhafid Khatib, Jean-Michel Mension, Alexander Trocchi and Gil J Wolman, several of whom were later among the original members of the SI.
	eprints.cddc.vt.edu /mirrors/SI/report.htm (7219 words)

	lettrists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Lettrist International (LI) was the first breakaway group from Isidore Isou's Lettrist Movement (LM}.
		The story of the Lettrists was documented in Greil Marcus' book "Lipstick Traces".
		The New Lettrist International was founded more recently.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Lettrists.html (352 words)

	Guy Debord - Situationist, Lettrist, Philosopher - Biography
		In 1950 Debord began his association with the Lettrist International, which was being led by Isidore Isou at the time.
		The Lettrists were attempting to fuse poetry and music, and were interested in transforming the urban landscape.
		Debord proclaimed himself the leader of the SI, and saw himself responsible for maintaining the high ideals he had in mind for the group, but to equate Debord with the SI in all its activities would be misleading.
	www.egs.edu /resources/debord.html (1085 words)

	lettrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lettrism is an artistic style which was dreamed up in Romania by Isidore Isou in 1942, when he was only sixteen years old, according to Jean-Paul Curtay in La Poesie Lettriste (Paris 1974).
		Isou travelled to Paris where the Lettrist movement was formed.
		A split in the movement lead to the formation of the Lettrist International.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /lettrism.html (203 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| Music \| Morning Has Broken \| 2001-04-25
		Debord's question was directed at the legacy of the Lettrist International, his long-extinct faction of artists, drunkards and madmen whose goal was the destruction of postwar French society and the creation of a modern world free of consumerism, rules and prohibitions.
		The Lettrist International broke apart and was quickly forgotten, except by Greil Marcus, whose long-winded account of their aims and actions in his book Lipstick Traces takes a genuinely fascinating story and sucks all the life out of it (oh, how it sucks!).
		Marcus took the chaotic story of the Lettrists and linearized it; Western Robot took the anarchic spirit of the Lettrists and ran with it.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /Issues/2001-04-25/music/music.html (1001 words)

	Field NEMLA 2003 (printable)
		The Lettrists saw traditional art as dead and the only possible form of expression, therefore, as détournement, the recontextualizing of elements to subvert their original intent and thereby explore possible new meanings, a practice that later came to define Situationist art making.
		Isou's theory of cinema developed from his criticism of poetry and painting; the letter itself is not sufficient for Lettrist painting as there are only twenty-four letters.
		The Lettrists quickly became known for their unconventional activities, often seen as scandalous by the French public and press.
	www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2003/Fieldptr.htm (429 words)

	dbqp: visualizing poetics: Asemia Becomes You
		In modern times, the Lettrists (a vibrant and often overlooked group of visual poetry practictioners that, in its latter years, devolved into the Situationist International, a political movement of no particular import) were eager proponents of asemia, of the power of the symbol without an accepted meaning.
		The pre-concretist Brion Gysin was one of the first to fiddle with the concept of asemic texts during the early part of the last century.
		As with the Lettrists, asemic writers of our time may simply be revolting against the dominance of the word, which is virtually omnipresent in our increasingly networked and electronic world.
	dbqp.blogspot.com /2004/04/asemia-becomes-you.html (938 words)

	Situationist International Online
		Yet memories of the misery of the war, from which this expressionism drew its inspiration, were growing weaker and weaker.
		It is in poetry that life will be housed." And the Lettrists' delegate formulated that Congress's conclusion: "The parallel crises that currently affect all modes of creation are determined by a general process, and one can only arrive at the resolution of these crises from within a general perspective.
		The movement of negation and destruction that has manifested itself with increasing swiftness against all antiquated conditions of artistic activity is irreversible: it is a consequence of the appearance of superior possibilities for action in the world."
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/dutch.html (903 words)

	Guy Debord and the Situationists
		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.
		At first, they were principally concerned with the "suppression of art", that is to say, they wished like the Dadaists and the Surrealists before them to supersede the categorization of art and culture as separate activities and to transform them into part of everyday life.
		Inspired by the libertarian journal _Socialisme on Barbarie_, the Situationists rediscovered the history of the anarchist movement, particularly during the period of the First International, and drew inspiration from Spain, Kronstadt, and the Makhnovists.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Obituary/debord.html (1487 words)

	drifting and psychogeography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Before this, however, he was to play a leading role in developing the two main practical techniques used by the lettrists at this time: drifting and psychogeography.
		The first could be described as a sort of free association in terms of city space.
		L'Internationale Lettriste were the first artists to understand the enormous potential of graffiti as a means of literary expression today.
	www.headmap.org /index/headmapb/psycholo/situatio/drifting.html (834 words)

	Equi-Phallic Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Despite doubts about the validity of the Preliminary Committee for the Founding of a New Lettrist International, and concerns relating to the issue of verification, the Equi-Phallic Alliance and Poetry Field Club journeyed to Aberdeen to attend the Congress.
		Knowing that Lettrists value this letter above all others, I intended to uncover it, so that I could present it, as a ‘finding’, later that day.
		Unfortunately the other Lettrists were no longer there when we returned to tell them of our discovery.
	www.digital-magic.co.uk /equiphallicalliance/tlv3.htm (2682 words)

	Détournement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the early 1950s a small group in Paris began to call themselves Lettrists, driven by the belief of a young Romanian immigrant that the fundamental human drive was the will to create.
		In the wake of World War II, Isidore Isou, who had finagled his way from war-ravaged Romania to the cultural capital of the continent, felt Europe was stuck in a phase of cultural decomposition.
		His response was to take the exhausted materials of creation--the sounds of music, the materials of visual art, the words of poetry--and reduce them to their most meaningless form, then use them in an utterly fresh way that was "smart" about the emptiness of modern life.
	www.english.vt.edu /~siegle/Comp/D_tournement/d_tournement.html (568 words)

	mital-U : Lettrist International - Situationist International
		It was mainly a reaction against Andre Breton's dictatorial control of surrealism and it's movement away from its conceptual origins in dada to mysticism.
		The lettrists worked on the level of the type as the heart of an visual language, which was the base of their new culture.
		A group of lettrists took an active part at the First World Congress of Liberated Artists (with the slogan 'The International Movement for an Imagine Bauhaus') 1956 at Alba (Italy).
	www.mital-u.ch /Dada/situe.html (1844 words)

	Situationist International Online
		A group of lettrists – including Serge Berna, Jean-Louis Brau, Ghislain Desnoyers de Marbaix and Michel Mourre – perpetrates the Notre-Dame Scandal, when Mourre, dressed as a Dominican monk, reads a sermon prepared by Berna announcing the death of God at Easter mass.
		No More Flat Feet, tract denouncing Charlie Chaplin signed by the Lettrist International (Berna, Brau, Debord and Wolman), is thrown into the crowd at a press conference for Chaplin's film Limelight at the Ritz Hotel, Paris.
		Publication in Les Lèvres nues #6 of Guy Debord's article 'Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography,' the first of a series of important Lettrist articles to be appear in the Belgian journal.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/chronology/1956.html (715 words)

	Author note for Michel Amarger, one of the Lettrists, or practioners of Lettrisme, French Avant-Garde Movement ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Il organise des spectacles de théâtre et de poésies lettristes.
		He has studied literature, cinema, and theater, and works as a cinema and art critic for many periodicals.
		He is now involved in cinema and art concepts he creates all around the world with new technologies.
	www.thing.net /~grist/lnd/lettrist/amarger.htm (397 words)

	Hobgoblin Journal
		In Paris, the young Rumanian exile, Isadore Isou, led a group called the "Lettrists", who were experimenting in sound-poems and paintings made up of written words.
		When Lettrists also began making avant-guard films, they attracted the efforts of Guy Debord and Gil Wolman, both then in their early-20s.
		In 1957, after years of discussions between the "left lettrists" and avant-guard artists in various countries, the founding of a "Situationist International" drew in participants from the Lettrist International; the Movement for Imaginist Bauhaus; and the former-surrealists of COBRA (Copenhagen-Brussels-Amsterdam), led by the Danish painter, Asger Jorn.
	www.thehobgoblin.co.uk /journal/H4.htm (6009 words)

	Just Drifting: Situationism and Rock
		First organized in 1952, the Lettrist International was made up of small groups of Paris based intellectuals who took their lead from the Dadaists of the 1920's.
		In this avant-garde tradition, the Situationists focused on the "suppression of art," that is they wanted to go beyond the categorization of art and culture as separate activities and to transform them into part of everyday life.
		While the Lettrists inclined towards minimal and conceptual ideas of art, the Imaginist Bauhaus(1954-1957), led by painter Asger Jorn, turned towards a more hands-on visual approach.
	www.furious.com /perfect/situationism.html (1760 words)

	Lettrists attack Charlie Chaplin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		[5] It would appear that the Lettrists had not seen this film, which explicitly deals with the themes of Chaplin's aging, the relevance of his work, his stubbornness and egotism, etc.
		As a matter of fact, Chaplin had been barred from re-entering America, where he'd lived for many years, once again for his "communist" sympathies.
		(Distributed by the Lettrist International on 29 October 1952 at the hotel at which Charlie Chaplin held a press conference.
	www.notbored.org /no-more-flat-feet.html (393 words)

	Author note for Frederique Devaux, one of the Lettrists, or practioners of Lettrisme, French Avant-Garde Movement ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Cliquez ici pour voir des oeuvres Lettristes de Frédérique Devaux.
		Joins up with the Lettriste group in 1980.
		Author of twelve research or documentary films (including several documentaries on the Lettriste movement -- cf.
	www.thing.net /~grist/lnd/lettrist/devaux.htm (302 words)

	Untitled Document
		The changing of landscapes from one hour to the next will result in total disorientation Later, as the gestures inevitably grow stale, this drifting [dérive] will partially leave the realm of direct experience for that of representation”
		Lettrists saw that all cities are imaginative, land of passions, but were captured by geography or transformed to a mere geography.
		Later on Debord conceptualized the theory of dérive inspired of bohemian
	www.angelfire.com /ar/corei/SI/SIsecb.htm (1116 words)

	U B U W E B :: Guy Debord
		It sounds more like the Lettrists, or possibly the Danish/German breakaway faction of the Situationists, but more likely the lettrists because the accents seem to be French.
		I don't recognize any voice which sounds like Debord's voice, which is pretty distinctive.
		By the time the Situs had formed, I think Debord had totally abandoned working in this mode and I have never seen any evidence that he worked in this mode even when he was part of the Lettrists or the Lettrist International.
	www.ubu.com /sound/debord.html (524 words)

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