Lettrism

English Alternative forms en Letterism lettrism Etymology From en fr Lettrisme, ultimately from fr lettre letter. Proper noun A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism. en situationism en 2002 Tom McDonough Lettrism: A Neo-Dadaism? Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents MIT Press 9780262633000 442 Jean-Paul Curtay 1983 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; en 2006 Vincent Kaufmann Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry 9780816644551 Robert Bononno University of Minnesota Press 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, Further reading