"Lettrism was a fascinating movement of generalised creation that attempted to revolutionise poetry, visual art, cinema, theatre, economics, the novel, science and philosophy. This book overcomes the problems of scarcity and dispersal of these ephemera to reveal to a new and curious public the importance of this forgotten avant-garde, the missing link between Dadaism, Surrealism and sound or concrete poetry, conceptual art, and the Situationist International. This database, a vertitable 'gold mine' for thought, finally makes accessible the original and unpublished concepts of the Lettrists, where the art of the insult mingles with proposals for the concrete upheaval of society, in its poetic, artistic, political and utopian dimensions." -- Back cover
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