Isidore Isou | |
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 Isou in his film Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951) | |
| Born | Isidor Goldstein 29 January 1925 Botoşani, Romania |
| Died | 28 July 2007 (aged 82) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, film critic, visual artist |
Isidore Isou (French: [izu]; 29 January 1925 – 28 July 2007), born Isidor Goldstein,[1] was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist.[2] He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism.
An important figure in the mid-20th Century avant-garde, he is remembered in the cinema world chiefly for his revolutionary 1951 film Traité de Bave et d'Eternité,[3] while his political writings are seen as foreshadowing the May 1968 movements.[4]
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FAwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Book Review of The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
- ^ Cabañas, Kaira M. (2014). Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226174624.
- ^ "Isidore Isou at the Sorbonne, 2000 -- commenting on Lettrisme, or Lettrism, the French form of avant-garde visuual poetry most often associated with the French Revolutionary Student Movement of 1968". www.thing.net. Retrieved 2018-11-08.