Isidore Isou

Isidore Isou
Isou in his film Traité de bave et d'éternité (1951)
Born
Isidor Goldstein

(1925-01-29)29 January 1925
Botoşani, Romania
Died28 July 2007(2007-07-28) (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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference FA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Book Review of The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou at Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art
  3. ^ Cabañas, Kaira M. (2014). Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226174624.
  4. ^ "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.