Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde - Rilegato

Cabanas, Kaira M.

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ISBN 10: 022617445X ISBN 13: 9780226174457

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2015

Riassunto

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier works of the Dadaists and Surrealists and the later Conceptual artists.

Off-Screen Cinema is the first monograph in English of the Lettrists. Offering a full portrait of the avant-garde scene of 1950s Paris, it focuses on the film works of key Lettrist figures like Gil J Wolman, Maurice Lemaītre, Franēois Dufrźne, and especially the movement's founder, Isidore Isou, a Romanian immigrant whose discrepant editing” deliberately uncoupled image and sound. Through Cabańas's history, we see not only the full scope of the Lettrist project, but also its clear influence on Situationism, the French New Wave, the New Realists, as well as American filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage.

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L'autore:

Kaira M. Cabańas is an art historian and visiting professor in the Departamento de Letras at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the author of The Myth of Nouveau Réalisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France.

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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 022617445X
• ISBN 13: 9780226174457
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 179