Meaning of Lettrism | Babel Free

Definitions

A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.

Examples

“So if lettrism, like Dada, came out of a reaction against a world war, Lettrism did not remain a protest . . . [but became] an exaltation of permanently renewed arts, philosophy, scientific knowledge, technology; […]”

“Isou's lettrism was the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk in the grip of decomposition, a project for the total destruction of art, that is, a project of total art, another avatar of what Mallarmé ironically referred to as the Book, […]”

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