Lettrism

The Lettrism (French Lettrisme to French Lettre, letter), founded in 1945 by Isidore is a Isou ( 1925-2007 ) in Paris literary and artistic movement that the decomposition of words in a consistent continuation and systematization of Dadaist and surrealist tendencies among other letters and their recomposition to mindless According structures sought.

Development

Isidore Isou, a 21 -year-old Romanian artists were, in 1946, the founding of the movement known Lettrist. The new movement with about twenty members announced in 1948 in the Latin Quarter on posters optimistic: 120,000 young people will conquer the streets to make the Lettrist revolution. The aim was to revolutionize the traditional aesthetics. The language saw the lettrists and in their creativity exhausted, artistic production should be laid in the future to a purer and more profound element of poetry -making: the letter. It should be used instead of character images, Isou called his theory Hypergraphologie. This figuration and abstraction in painting should be replaced by letters and signs.

Lettrists were known to provide their clothing with letters and slogans.

The Lettrists was already the examination of the architecture is very important. They put forward the theory that the exemption of life following the liberation of the city. It was important to them that the whole of the arts is not lifted from the reality exists, but based on a livable activity. Thus, the Lettrists with a new lifestyle in search of a liberating urban planning were. This was the same theoretical basis for the Situationists.

There was a split in the group on the question of whether further art and aesthetics should be the field of work or Dadaist anti-art and sabotage the funds were offered to refer directly to the reality effect. The sabotage Group then founded the International Lettrist.

From the circle of Lettrists are also Guy Debord (who, however, has distanced himself from them later ) emerged and other protagonists of situationism. In the Lettrist movement, a group had formed, gathered around Guy Debord. For the first time this group was publicly perceived, as they at an Easter Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris kidnapped a pastor on April 9, 1950, a representative from our own ranks replaced him with Michel Mourre. Mourre, dressed as a Dominican monk, stopped in front of about 10,000 visitors to the show a " sermon " in which he proclaimed " God is dead". In the resulting uproar, the group of Lettrists present had to flee and was only narrowly escaped a lynching by the angry crowd. After the group had also tries to blow up a press conference for Charlie Chaplin to Isou distanced himself from them, and it came to the establishment of the International Lettrist by Debord pendant, later the Situationist International emerged from the.

1972 met Mike Rose as the only German on the Paris group of Lettrists. Expenses incurred during this period " characters " images were internationally known. Eugen Gommringer wrote about Mike Rose: " He may be quite right today than let denote the German contribution to Lettrism '. "

Richard Grasshoff defined Lettrism in his dissertation as a " production strategy that combines mystical, ludic and dekompositorische traits in their core " and thus distinguishes the variants Mystic Lettrism, Ludistischer Lettrism and Dekompositorischer Lettrism; he argues that the narrow understanding of Lettrism as " nonsense poetry " or purely avant-garde production strategy will not let maintained.

The Lettrism has parallels to concrete poetry and especially for visual poetry and was also adapted from the literature.

Among the important works of the early Lettrist film include Le film est déjà Commence? by Maurice Lemaître (1951 ), Traité de bave et d' éternité of Isidore Isou (1951) and L' Anti Concept by Gil J. Wolman ( 1952). Isou has described the basics of Lettrist cinema aesthetics in his Esthetique du cinéma ( 1953).

Quotes

• [ ... ] And I found my people. There were alcoholics, very young alcoholics, as we all were. They came together in the afternoon and then there was music, noise, talking all night [ ... ]

• Everyone is a child of many fathers. There is the Father, we hated, surrealism and there was the father, whom we loved: DADA. - Michèle Bernstein

• We are the ones who are into wearing the only true anger in social struggles. One makes the revolution not by requiring 25216 francs a month. Immediately you have to gain his life, be completely earthly life in which everything is possible:

• We need to support a rebellion, which affects us, which corresponds to the amount of our claim. We stand for a certain idea of ​​happiness, even if it has been lost forever, an idea, according to which every revolutionary program must align first.