Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde

by Kaira M. Cabanas

Book Overview

One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier works of the Dadaists and Surrealists and the later Conceptual artists. Off-Screen Cinema is the first monograph in English of the Lettrists. Offering a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022617459X
• ISBN13: 9780226174594
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 9.7"