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Isidore Isou
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lettrismesound poetryAvant-GardefrenchRomanian
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Isidore Isou (January 31, 1925 – July 28, 2007), was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism. Born into a Jewish family in Botoşani, Isou started his career as an avant-garde art journalist during World War II, shortly after the August 23 coup saw Romania joining the Allies (see Romania during World War II). With the future social psychologist Serge Moscovici, he founded the magazine Da, which was soon after closed down by the authorities. He moved to Paris, having developed many concepts that intended a total artistic renewal starting from the lowest levels. He called himself a Lettriste, a movement of which he was initially the only member (at the age of 16 he had published the Manifesto in 1942) and published a system of Lettrist hypergraphics. Others soon joined him, and the movement continues to grow, albeit at times under a confusing number of different names. In 1951 the young Isou released his experimental and revolutionary film Traité de bave et d'éternité (Venom And Eternity), which some critics found revolting, and which became the Lettriste film manifesto. Attacking many film conventions by chipping away at them in his film, Isou introduced new concepts, including "discrepancy cinema" in which the sound track has little or nothing to do with the visual track. The sound track begins with jarring and unpleasant human noises, which continue
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Futura Poesia Sonora (Disc 4)
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Poemes Lettristes 1944-1999
Poèmes Lettristes 1944-1999
Musiques Lettristes
Futura Poesia Sonora
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Futura: Poesia Sonora
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Musiques lettristes - Frédéric Acquaviva
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Juvenal (Symphonie 4)
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Juvenal [symphonie 4]
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Poemes Lettristes
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Trait de Bave Et D'ternit Aka Venom & Eternity
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Poиmes Lettristes 1944-1999