Le Demi-Siecle Lettriste
Paris: Galerie 1900-2000, 1988. First edition. Illustrated Wrapper. Illustrated wrapper, 111 pages, text in French, 207 listed works illustrated in b&w and color. Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Galerie 1900 - 2000, Paris, 1988. The show features the collection of François Letaillieur which included the work of Roberto Altmann, Jean-Louis Brau, Gérard-Phillipe Broutin, Françoise Canal, Jean-Paul Curtay, François Dufrene, Albert Dupont, Paul-Armand Gette, Jean-Pierre Gillard, Antoine Grimaud, Micheline Hachette, Isidore Isou, Aude Jessemin, Alain de Latour, Nina Lebel, Maurice Lemaître, François Letaillieur, Gio Minola, Pomerand, Poucette, François Poyet, Marie-Thérèse Richol, Roberdhay, Woody Roehmer, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satie, Jacques Spacagna, Frédéric Studeny, Janie van den Driesche, Florence Villers, Rosie Vronsky, Gil J Wolman, and Zenderoudi. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Text in French. Lettrisme was a French avant-garde movement founded in the 1940s which takes the form of visual poetry, with artists using calligraphic techniques to superimpose letters on various objects from furniture to film Founded by the Romanian-born artist Isidore Isou in the mid 1940s, the movement was associated with the Situationist branch of the anarchist family and became the art that dominated posters and barricades in the Paris Spring of 1968. Because lettrisme uses calligraphic techniques it foreshadowed layering and other computer techniques, and is sometimes called hypergraphie. Both mail art and contemporary graffiti art, which share many of the lettrisme’s basic characteristics, could be said to have evolved out of lettrisme. Very Good / No dust jacket. Item #19931
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