ISIDORE ISOU
Thus "LETTRISM": "the avant-garde of the avant-garde". Isou began with poetry, becasue as creation was the highest form of human activity, and art the highest form of creation, poetry was highest form of art.
Friday 19 November 2010
Tuesday 9 November 2010
Rituel somptueux pour la Seclection des Espèces (1965) (2:12)
According to Isidore Isou there exists a poetic evolution which, from Baudelaire to Tzara, involves a constant deepening and reduction of the poetic material, from the poem to the phrase, from the phrase to the word, from the word to the phoneme, from the phoneme to the syllable, to the alphabetic letter
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