Rewriting the World: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Book
| Author | Frédéric Acquaviva and Bill Kartalopoulos eds. |
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| Publisher | Center for Book Arts |
| ISBN | 9781951163228 |
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| Status | not yet published |
'Rewriting the World: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Book' documents the first major U.S. exhibition devoted to the Lettrist book, positioning Isidore Isou and Lettrism as foundational to the history of artists’ books. Founded in Paris in 1945, Lettrism transformed literature and art by shifting meaning from words to letters and signs, anticipating conceptual art, concrete poetry, experimental cinema, comics, and Fluxus. Through essays, archival documents, and rich illustrations, the publication foregrounds the Lettrist book as a site of formal, material, and conceptual experimentation, reframing Isou’s hypergraphic novels and book objects as essential precedents for postwar and contemporary practices today.
| 80 p, ills colour & bw, pb, English |
