Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925–2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940's. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasizes its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism’s renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou’s theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.

Mysticism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Judaism --- History. --- Psychological aspects. --- Isou, Isidore --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Goldstein, Isou --- Isou, Jean Isidore --- Goldstein, Isidore --- Golstein, Jean-Isidore --- Noël, Catherine,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Experimental films --- Lettrism --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- History --- film --- twintigste eeuw --- cinéma lettriste --- Isou Isidore --- Lemaitre Maurice --- Ion (tijdschrift) --- Satié Alain --- Hachette Micheline --- Broutin Gérard-Philippe --- Poyet François --- Dupont Albert --- lettrisme --- Amarger Michel --- 791.43 --- Aesthetics --- Art --- Literature --- Typewriter art --- Visual poetry --- Visual literature --- Isou, Isidore --- Lemaître, Maurice, --- Goldstein, Isou --- Isou, Jean Isidore --- Goldstein, Isidore --- Golstein, Jean-Isidore --- Noël, Catherine, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bismuth, Moïse Maurice, --- Experimental films - History and criticism --- Motion pictures - France - History --- Cinéma expérimental --- Cinéma --- Experimental films. --- Film. --- Filmkunst. --- Geschichte (1951-1991). --- Lettrism. --- Lettrisme. --- Lettrismus. --- Motion pictures. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Isou, Isidore, --- Isou, Isidore. --- Lemaître, Maurice, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Geschichte 1951-1991. --- France. --- Frankreich. --- Frankrijk. --- LETTRISME --- CINEMA EXPERIMENTAL --- HISTOIRE --- 1951-1991 --- FRANCE