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Lettrisme

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 846 Collections and/or Records:

The Beauty in Breathing, 1992

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-23698-24145
Scope and Contents

This badge has a linear-optic reproduction of a photograph by Maurice Lemaitre commissioned in 1990 by Marvin Sackner for the exhibition of the same title held at the American Lung Association meeting in Miami Beach in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[The Beauty in Breathing] / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07053-7191
Scope and Contents

The model is the same as the one used for the announcement badge but in this version the face is obscured with paint and the torso left intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[The Beauty in Breathing] / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-07054-7192
Scope and Contents

The model is the same as the one used for the announcement badge but in this version the face is obscured with paint and the torso left intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[The Beauty in Breathing] / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-06960-7083
Scope and Contents

This photograph is a copy enlarged from the original photograph by a photographer commissioned by Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Colour of Everything / Heart Fine Art ; Aragon L ; Andre C ; Artaud A ; Audiberti J ; Breton A ; Eluard P ; Jorn A ; Peret B ; Acconci V ; Art & Language ; Beuys J ; Buren D ; Darboven H ; Garnier P ; Knizak M ; Kosuth J ; Nauman B ; Ruscha E ; Weiner L., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38887-40813
Scope and Contents

Consists of 2 lists: part 1 - Apparently the Known Universe Is Not in Turquoise after All and part 2 - In Fact the Cosmorama is Clothed in Beige. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Unknown Avant Garde 1945-1985 / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Isou I; Pomerand G; Lemaitre M; Debord G; Wolman G; Dufrene F; Kruger B; Holzer J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17837-18207
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of an introductory essay for the exhibition catalog published by the Franklin Furnace on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Three Photographs] / Isou, Isidore., 1980

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Identifier: CC-35547-37287
Scope and Contents

Two of the snapshots depict Isou and an unidentified man seated at a table with microphone. The third photo is Isou standing in front of his works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Title 3 / Sabatier, Roland., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01829-1865
Scope and Contents

Verso of card is reproduction of Histoire de l'architecture (1987-1988) by Sabatier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Traite De Bave et D'Eternite [Treatise on Venom and Eternity] / Isou, Isidore ; Lemaitre M ; Cendrars B ; Cocteau J ; Devaux F., 1951 - 2008

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Identifier: CC-57493-10000786
Scope and Contents The documentation of this experimental lettriste film in the accompanying book was written by Frederique Devaux.Wikipedia: Treaty of drool and eternity is an experimental film French written and directed by Isidore Isou in 1951 , produced by Marc'O and mounted with the help of Maurice Lemaitre . Duration: 120 min. This is the first work of cinema Lettrist . This film caused a scandal at Cannes in 1951 and received the Prix Spectators Avant-Garde. This film is based on the principle Isou called discrepant assembly, which consists of a total disjunction between sound and image, processed independently without any meaningful relationship. Thus, the soundtrack consists of poems Lettrists (for generic and interludes), which is added a narrative telling the story of Daniel, author of a manifesto for a new cinema (the cinema discrepant) of his speech in front of a hostile audience and his love affair with a woman named Eve. The empowerment of its purpose to do to reach their full...
Dates: 1951 - 2008

Une Vie de Signe, 1985

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Identifier: CC-15281-15603
Scope and Contents

This is a compendium of mostly abstract drawings by Devaux. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985