LETTRISM
1946-2000
Compared to Conceptual Art, and before the appearance of this movement, Isidore Isou will propose, in 1946, the Infinite Art; he highlights the secondary role of the materiality of the work to privilege the virtual, imaginary data.
The Lettrists first gave the name « metagraphy », then « hypergraphy » to their synthesis of writing and visual arts. Precedents can be found in Cubist, Dadaist and Futurist works, in the fields of painting and typography, such as « Zang Tumb Tumb », by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, or in poems such as « Calligrammes », by Guillaume Apollinaire. However, Lettrism is considered by Isidore Isou as a new path in the novel and the plastic arts, after the exhaustion of prose by James Joyce and his « Finnegans Wake », and the exhaustion of pictorial representation by cubism, abstract art, or the ready-made by Marcel Duchamp.
Lettrism wants to be an art constantly renewed by new and unknown contributions, beyond any production that would be reduced to the repetition of a know-how-to-think or a previous knowledge.
The Lettrists first gave the name « metagraphy », then « hypergraphy » to their synthesis of writing and visual arts. Precedents can be found in Cubist, Dadaist and Futurist works, in the fields of painting and typography, such as « Zang Tumb Tumb », by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, or in poems such as « Calligrammes », by Guillaume Apollinaire. However, Lettrism is considered by Isidore Isou as a new path in the novel and the plastic arts, after the exhaustion of prose by James Joyce and his « Finnegans Wake », and the exhaustion of pictorial representation by cubism, abstract art, or the ready-made by Marcel Duchamp.
Lettrism wants to be an art constantly renewed by new and unknown contributions, beyond any production that would be reduced to the repetition of a know-how-to-think or a previous knowledge.
Artists not in gallery : Gabriel Pomerand, Maurice Lemaître, Roberdhay, Gil J Wolman, Jean-Louis Brau, Jacques Spacagna, Roberto Altmann, Roland Sabatier, Micheline Hachette, Alain Satié, Gérard-Philippe Broutin, Jean-Pierre Gillard, François Poyet, Anne-Catherine Caron, etc.
Artists in gallery : Isidore Isou.
XXth century art movements
- 1855-1890 IMPRESSIONNISM
- 1880-1895 JAPONISM
- 1888-1910 NABIS MOVEMENT
- 1900-1932 EXPRESSIONISM
- 1902-1907 FAUVISM
- 1905-1930 GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM
- 1907-1912 NEW-PRIMITIVISM
- 1907-1925 CUBISM
- 1909 RAYONNISM
- 1909-1916 FUTURISM
- 1912-1920 ORPHISM
- 1913 ARMORY SHOW
- 1915-1920 SUPREMATISM
- 1915-1935 SCHOOL OF PARIS MONTPARNASSE
- 1916-1924 DADAISM
- 1918-1939 PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN WARS
- 1919-1933 BAUHAUS
- 1920-1927 PURISM
- 1920-1950 SOCIAL REALISM
- 1922-1933 ITALIAN NOVECENTO
- 1922-1960 MURALISM
- 1924-1969 SURREALISM
- 1925-1935 ART DECO
- 1927-1965 ATELIER 17
- 1930-1970 MODERN SCULPTURE
- 1931-1938 ABSTRACTION-CREATION
- 1933 UNIT ONE GROUP
- 1935-1980 MAGIC REALISM
- 1938-1968 SPACIALISM
- 1942-1957 ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
- 1942-1975 NON FIGURATIVE ART
- 1945-1960 SCHOOL OF PARIS
- 1945-1985 ART BRUT
- 1946-1956 NEW REALITIES
- 1946-2000 LETTRISM
- 1948-1952 COBRA
- 1950-1960 LYRIC ART, ABSTRACT, TACHISM
- 1950-1960 NEW-DADAISM
- 1951 ESPACE GROUP
- 1954-.... NUAGISM
- 1955-1968 OPTICAL ART
- 1955-1970 POP'ART
- 1960 SCHOOL OF LONDON
- 1960-1970 NEW REALISM
- 1960-1972 FLUXUS
- 1960-1980 NEW FIGURATION
- 1962-1965 MECHANICAL ART
- 1962-1980 MINIMAL ART
- 1965-1975 SCHOOL OF NICE
- 1965-1975 NARRATIVE FIGURATION
- 1965-1980 CONCEPTUAL ART
- 1965-1985 HYPERREALISM
- 1966-1971 ARTE POVERA
- 1968- LAND ART
- 1970-1972 SUPPORTS/SURFACE
- 1970-2020 STREET ART
- 1975- PHOTOGRAPHY PERIOD 1975
- 1975-1985 GERMAN NEW EXPRESSIONNISM
- 1979-1990 ITALIAN TRANS-AVANT-GARDE
- 1980-2016 FREE FIGURATION
- XXème siècle SINGULAR ARTISTS
- XXth century ARTISTS OF TODAY