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

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. This is a monograph in English on the Lettrists.

About the author

Kaira M. Cabanas 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 Realisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France.

Summary

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. This is a monograph in English on the Lettrists.

Product details

• Authors: Kaira Marie Cabaanas, Kaira M. Cabanas, Kaira Marie Cabanas
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2015
• EAN: 9780226174457
• ISBN: 978-0-226-17445-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; France, ART / European, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Films, cinema, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Art & design styles: from c 1960, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, C 1945 To C 1960