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− | ; | + | The '''Lettrist International''' (or Letterist International; LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists and theorists between 1952 and 1957. It was created by [[Guy Debord]] as a schism from [[Isidore Isou]]'s Lettrist group. The group went on to join others in forming the [[Situationist International]], taking some key techniques and ideas with it. |
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+ | ==Publications== | ||
+ | [[Image:Potlatch_1_22_Jun_1954.jpg|thumb|350px|''[[Potlatch]]'', 29 numbers, 1954-1957, [[Potlatch|PDFs]], [[Media:Potlatch_1954-1957_transcript.pdf#page=7|PDF (transcript)]].]] | ||
+ | (in French) | ||
+ | ===Periodicals=== | ||
+ | <onlyinclude>{{#ifeq:{{{transcludesection|periodicals}}}|periodicals| | ||
+ | *{{a|IL}} ''[http://debordiana.chez.com/francais/il.htm Internationale lettriste]'', 4 numbers, ed. G.-E. Debord, Paris: Internationale lettriste, Dec 1952-Jun 1954. | ||
+ | ** [http://www.notbored.org/LI.html English translation], ''Not Bored!'', n.d. {{en}} | ||
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+ | * ''[[Potlatch|Potlatch: bulletin d'information de groupe français de l'Internationale lettriste]]'', later ''Potlatch: bulletin d'information de l'Internationale lettriste'', 29 numbers (27 issues), eds. André-Frank Conord (1-8), Mohamed Dahou (9-18, 20-22), Gil J. Wolman (19), and Jacques Fillon (23-24), Paris, 22 Jun 1954-5 Nov 1957; new ed., augm., as ''Potlatch, 1954-1957'', Paris: Lebovici, 1985, 242 pp; repr. as ''Guy Debord présente Potlatch, 1954-1957'', Paris: Gallimard, 1996, 291 pp. [http://web.archive.org/web/20071008115413/http://www.mouvementdanette.be/il/potlatch/numero01.htm] [https://books.google.com/books?id=DeJvHK98EzMC&printsec=frontcover] | ||
+ | ** ''Guy Debord präsentiert Potlatch, 1954-1957. Informationsbulletin der Lettristischen Internationale, mit einem Dokumentenanhang'', trans. Wolfgang Kukulies, Berlin: Tiamat, 2002, 381 pp. {{de}} | ||
+ | ** ''Potlatch: Internacional Letrista (1954-1959). Más Introducción a una crítica de la geografía urbana; Modo de uso del desvío. Informe sobre la construcción de situaciones y sobre las condiciones de la organización y la acción de la tendencia situacionista internacional'', Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2002, 157 pp. [https://www.traficantes.net/libros/potlatch] {{es}} | ||
+ | ** [[Media:Potlatch 1954-1956 digest.pdf|"Potlatch: Information Bulletin of the French Section of the Lettrist International (selection)"]], n.d., [https://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/li.html HTML]. {{en}} | ||
+ | ** [http://lj.rossia.org/users/potlach/ Translations of selected articles in Russian], c2017. {{ru}} | ||
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+ | * ''Les Lèvres Nues'', 12 numbers, Brussels, 1954-1958; facs., Paris: Plasma, 1978, 500 pp; Paris: Allia, 1999. [http://www.revues-litteraires.com/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=2918] | ||
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+ | ===Books, articles=== | ||
+ | * Guy Debord, "Les environs de Fresnes" [1952-1953], in Debord, ''Enregistrements magnétiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 2010. | ||
+ | * ''Visages de l’avant-garde 1953: Internationale lettriste'' [1953], ed. Jean-Louis Rançon, Paris: Jean-Paul Rocher, 2010. Text from the LI that recalls the adventures of the lettrists between 1945 to February 1953, first published 2010. [https://debordiana.noblogs.org/2011/07/visages-de-l%E2%80%99avant-garde-1953/]. Review: [https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/1370 Froger] (Critique d'art). | ||
+ | * Patrick Straram, ''Les bouteilles se couchent'' [1953], Paris: Allia, 2006. Semi-fictionalised contemporary account of the scene, written in 1953 but lost until recently. | ||
+ | * Ed Van der Elsken, ''Love on the Left Bank'', 1956; repr., Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999. Ed van der Elsken was a Dutch photographer, who captured the scene around Moineau's during the period. Included among the people depicted in this book are a few members and associates of the LI (particularly Mension and Papaï). | ||
+ | * Guy Debord, "Histoire de l'Internationale lettriste" [1956], in Debord, ''Enregistrements magnétiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 2010. | ||
+ | * ''Documents relatifs à la fondation de l'Internationale situationniste, 1948-1957'', ed. Gérard Berréby, Paris: Allia, 1985. [https://www.editions-allia.com/fr/livre/301/documents-relatifs-a-la-fondation-de-linternationale-situationniste] | ||
+ | * Guy Debord, ''Le marquis de Sade a des yeux de fille'', Paris: Fayard, 2004. Correspondence between Debord, Hervé Falcou and Ivan Chtcheglov in the early 1950s. [https://www.fayard.fr/documents-temoignages/le-marquis-de-sade-des-yeux-de-fille-9782213621210] | ||
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+ | ; English translations | ||
+ | * [http://www.notbored.org/LI.html Translations on Not Bored!] | ||
+ | * [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/li.html LI texts on Situationist International Online] | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Literature== | ||
+ | (in French unless noted otherwise) | ||
+ | * Jean-Louis Brau, ''Cours camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi'', Paris: Albin Michel, 1968. | ||
+ | * Eliane Brau, ''Le Situationnisme ou la Nouvelle Internationale'', Paris: Debresse, 1968. | ||
+ | * Jean-Louis Brau, ''Le Singe appliqué'', Paris: Grasset, 1972; Paris: Le Dilettante, 2012. | ||
+ | * Stewart Home, [https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ass/letint.htm "The Lettriste International (1952-57)"], ch 3 in Home, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10589 The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War]'', London: Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, 1988; 2nd ed., AK Press, 1991. {{en}} | ||
+ | ** [[Stewart Home#Home1988|translations]] | ||
+ | * Greil Marcus, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century]'', London: Secker & Warburg, 1989, 496 pp; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, 496 pp; new ed., London: Penguin, 1993, 512 pp; repr., Harvard University Press, 2009. {{en}} | ||
+ | ** ''Tracce di rossetto: percorsi segreti nella cultura del Novecento dal dada ai Sex Pistols'', trans. Mita Vitti, Milan: Leonardo, 1991, 506 pp; repr., Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2018, 523 pp. {{it}} | ||
+ | ** ''Lipstick Traces: von Dada bis Punk - eine geheime Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts'', trans. Hans M. Herzog and Friedrich Schneider, Hamburg: Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, 1992, 512 pp. {{de}} | ||
+ | ** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Rastros de carmín. Una historia secreta del siglo XX]'', trans. Damián Alou, Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993, 527 pp. {{es}} | ||
+ | ** ''Lipstick traces: une histoire secrète du vingtième siècle'', trans. Guillaume Godard, Paris: Gallimard, 1998, 602 pp. [https://www.librairie-gallimard.com/livre/9782070410774-lipstick-traces-une-histoire-secrete-du-vingtieme-siecle-greil-marcus/] {{fr}} | ||
+ | ** ''Stopy rtěnky: tajná historie dvacátého století'', trans. Dušan Krejčí, Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 427 pp. {{cz}} | ||
+ | ** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Ruj lekesi: Yirminci Yüzyılın gizli tarihi]'', trans. Gürol Koca, Istanbul: Ayrıntı, 1999, 496 pp. {{tr}} | ||
+ | ** ''Sledy pomady: Taynaya istoriya XX veka'' [Следы помады: Тайная история XX века], trans. A. Umnyashov, Moscow: Hylaea (Гилея), 2019, 640 pp. [http://hylaea.ru/220-sledi_pomadi_taynaja_istorija_xx_veka__per._s_angl._a._umnjashova_pod_red._v._sadovskogo.html] {{ru}} | ||
+ | * Jean-Michel Mension, ''La Tribu'', Paris: Allia, 1998. | ||
+ | * Richard Grasshoff, ''[http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/diss/2003/fu-berlin/2001/9/index.html Der Befreite Buchstabe. Über Lettrismus. Letters in Freedom]'', 2000. Dissertation. {{de}} | ||
+ | * Jean-Michel Mension, ''Le Temps gage'', Paris: Noésis, 2001. | ||
+ | * Andrew Hussey, ''The Game of War'', London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. {{en}} | ||
+ | * Marc Vachon, ''L’arpenteur de la ville: L’utopie situationniste et Patrick Straram'', Montreal: Triptyque, 2003. | ||
+ | * ''Figures de la négation: avant-gardes du dépassement de l'art'', ed. Yan Ciret, Saint-Étienne: Musée d'art moderne, 2004, 178 pp. [https://grandhornu.docressources.org/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=10611 TOC]. Catalogue for exh. held 22 Nov 2003-22 Feb 2004. {{fr}} | ||
+ | * Bernard Girard, ''Paris, laboratoire des avant-gardes, 1945-1965'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2008. Review: [https://critiquedart.revues.org/582 Pageard] (Critique d'art). {{fr}} | ||
+ | * Michel Giroud, ''Lettrisme, L’ultime avant-garde'', Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2010, 256 pp. [http://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=1557] | ||
+ | * ''Lettrisme: vue d’ensemble sur quelques dépassements précis'', La Seyne-sur-Mer: Villa Tamaris, 2010. Catalogue. | ||
+ | * Giulia Ciliberto, Veronica Vitti, ''[http://scribd.com/doc/48887825 Lettrismo / French Current of the Letter]'', c2010. {{it}} | ||
+ | * Guillaume Robin, ''Lettrisme, le bouleversement des arts: essai sur le lettrisme et les différents mouvements artistiques'', Paris: Hermann, 2010. [http://critiquedart.revues.org/1370?lang=en Review]. | ||
+ | * Nicole Brenez, ''‘We support everything since the dawn of time that has struggled and still struggles.’ Introduction to lettrist cinema'', Stockholm and Berlin: Moderna Muset/Sternberg Press, 2015, 72 pp. {{en}} [http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1568&l=en&bookId=462&sort=year] | ||
+ | * Kaira M. Cabañas, ''Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde'', University of Chicago Press, 2015, 192 pp. {{en}} | ||
+ | * James Trier, "Guy Debord, the Lettrists, and the Lettrist International, 1951–1957", ch 2 in Trier, ''Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit'', Leiden: Brill, 2019, pp 29-78. [https://brill.com/view/book/9789004402010/BP000002.xml] {{en}} | ||
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+ | ==Resources== | ||
+ | * [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lettrist/lettrist.htm Lettriste Pages], eds. Karl Young and Karl Kempton | ||
+ | * [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/presitu.html Pre-Situationist Archive] at Situationist International Online | ||
+ | * [http://lettriste-situationniste.com/ Lettriste - Situationniste - 1e Partie "Savoir vivre": 1946-1963] by François Letaillieur. Chronology and documents. | ||
+ | * [https://www.postwarcultureatbeinecke.org/lettrism Lettrist International in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library] | ||
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+ | ==See also== | ||
+ | * [[Lettrism]] | ||
+ | * [[Situationist International]] | ||
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+ | ==Links== | ||
* [http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/gil_wolman_frederic_acquaviva/capsula "Wolman, Lettrism, Sound Poetry and Beyond"], Radio Web MACBA, 2010, podcast. | * [http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/gil_wolman_frederic_acquaviva/capsula "Wolman, Lettrism, Sound Poetry and Beyond"], Radio Web MACBA, 2010, podcast. | ||
* http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/35550338714/la-musique-lettriste-hypergraphique | * http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/35550338714/la-musique-lettriste-hypergraphique | ||
− | * http:// | + | * [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationale_lettriste Lettrist International at French Wikipedia] |
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Latest revision as of 23:27, 25 May 2022
The Lettrist International (or Letterist International; LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists and theorists between 1952 and 1957. It was created by Guy Debord as a schism from Isidore Isou's Lettrist group. The group went on to join others in forming the Situationist International, taking some key techniques and ideas with it.
Contents
Publications[edit]
(in French)
Periodicals[edit]
- Internationale lettriste, 4 numbers, ed. G.-E. Debord, Paris: Internationale lettriste, Dec 1952-Jun 1954.
- English translation, Not Bored!, n.d. (English)
- Potlatch: bulletin d'information de groupe français de l'Internationale lettriste, later Potlatch: bulletin d'information de l'Internationale lettriste, 29 numbers (27 issues), eds. André-Frank Conord (1-8), Mohamed Dahou (9-18, 20-22), Gil J. Wolman (19), and Jacques Fillon (23-24), Paris, 22 Jun 1954-5 Nov 1957; new ed., augm., as Potlatch, 1954-1957, Paris: Lebovici, 1985, 242 pp; repr. as Guy Debord présente Potlatch, 1954-1957, Paris: Gallimard, 1996, 291 pp. [1] [2]
- Guy Debord präsentiert Potlatch, 1954-1957. Informationsbulletin der Lettristischen Internationale, mit einem Dokumentenanhang, trans. Wolfgang Kukulies, Berlin: Tiamat, 2002, 381 pp. (German)
- Potlatch: Internacional Letrista (1954-1959). Más Introducción a una crítica de la geografía urbana; Modo de uso del desvío. Informe sobre la construcción de situaciones y sobre las condiciones de la organización y la acción de la tendencia situacionista internacional, Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2002, 157 pp. [3] (Spanish)
- "Potlatch: Information Bulletin of the French Section of the Lettrist International (selection)", n.d., HTML. (English)
- Translations of selected articles in Russian, c2017. (Russian)
- Les Lèvres Nues, 12 numbers, Brussels, 1954-1958; facs., Paris: Plasma, 1978, 500 pp; Paris: Allia, 1999. [4]
Books, articles[edit]
- Guy Debord, "Les environs de Fresnes" [1952-1953], in Debord, Enregistrements magnétiques, Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
- Visages de l’avant-garde 1953: Internationale lettriste [1953], ed. Jean-Louis Rançon, Paris: Jean-Paul Rocher, 2010. Text from the LI that recalls the adventures of the lettrists between 1945 to February 1953, first published 2010. [5]. Review: Froger (Critique d'art).
- Patrick Straram, Les bouteilles se couchent [1953], Paris: Allia, 2006. Semi-fictionalised contemporary account of the scene, written in 1953 but lost until recently.
- Ed Van der Elsken, Love on the Left Bank, 1956; repr., Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999. Ed van der Elsken was a Dutch photographer, who captured the scene around Moineau's during the period. Included among the people depicted in this book are a few members and associates of the LI (particularly Mension and Papaï).
- Guy Debord, "Histoire de l'Internationale lettriste" [1956], in Debord, Enregistrements magnétiques, Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
- Documents relatifs à la fondation de l'Internationale situationniste, 1948-1957, ed. Gérard Berréby, Paris: Allia, 1985. [6]
- Guy Debord, Le marquis de Sade a des yeux de fille, Paris: Fayard, 2004. Correspondence between Debord, Hervé Falcou and Ivan Chtcheglov in the early 1950s. [7]
- English translations
Literature[edit]
(in French unless noted otherwise)
- Jean-Louis Brau, Cours camarade, le vieux monde est derrière toi, Paris: Albin Michel, 1968.
- Eliane Brau, Le Situationnisme ou la Nouvelle Internationale, Paris: Debresse, 1968.
- Jean-Louis Brau, Le Singe appliqué, Paris: Grasset, 1972; Paris: Le Dilettante, 2012.
- Stewart Home, "The Lettriste International (1952-57)", ch 3 in Home, The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War, London: Aporia Press and Unpopular Books, 1988; 2nd ed., AK Press, 1991. (English)
- Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, London: Secker & Warburg, 1989, 496 pp; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, 496 pp; new ed., London: Penguin, 1993, 512 pp; repr., Harvard University Press, 2009. (English)
- Tracce di rossetto: percorsi segreti nella cultura del Novecento dal dada ai Sex Pistols, trans. Mita Vitti, Milan: Leonardo, 1991, 506 pp; repr., Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2018, 523 pp. (Italian)
- Lipstick Traces: von Dada bis Punk - eine geheime Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, trans. Hans M. Herzog and Friedrich Schneider, Hamburg: Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, 1992, 512 pp. (German)
- Rastros de carmín. Una historia secreta del siglo XX, trans. Damián Alou, Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993, 527 pp. (Spanish)
- Lipstick traces: une histoire secrète du vingtième siècle, trans. Guillaume Godard, Paris: Gallimard, 1998, 602 pp. [8] (French)
- Stopy rtěnky: tajná historie dvacátého století, trans. Dušan Krejčí, Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 427 pp. (Czech)
- Ruj lekesi: Yirminci Yüzyılın gizli tarihi, trans. Gürol Koca, Istanbul: Ayrıntı, 1999, 496 pp. (Turkish)
- Sledy pomady: Taynaya istoriya XX veka [Следы помады: Тайная история XX века], trans. A. Umnyashov, Moscow: Hylaea (Гилея), 2019, 640 pp. [9] (Russian)
- Jean-Michel Mension, La Tribu, Paris: Allia, 1998.
- Richard Grasshoff, Der Befreite Buchstabe. Über Lettrismus. Letters in Freedom, 2000. Dissertation. (German)
- Jean-Michel Mension, Le Temps gage, Paris: Noésis, 2001.
- Andrew Hussey, The Game of War, London: Jonathan Cape, 2001. (English)
- Marc Vachon, L’arpenteur de la ville: L’utopie situationniste et Patrick Straram, Montreal: Triptyque, 2003.
- Figures de la négation: avant-gardes du dépassement de l'art, ed. Yan Ciret, Saint-Étienne: Musée d'art moderne, 2004, 178 pp. TOC. Catalogue for exh. held 22 Nov 2003-22 Feb 2004. (French)
- Bernard Girard, Paris, laboratoire des avant-gardes, 1945-1965, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2008. Review: Pageard (Critique d'art). (French)
- Michel Giroud, Lettrisme, L’ultime avant-garde, Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2010, 256 pp. [10]
- Lettrisme: vue d’ensemble sur quelques dépassements précis, La Seyne-sur-Mer: Villa Tamaris, 2010. Catalogue.
- Giulia Ciliberto, Veronica Vitti, Lettrismo / French Current of the Letter, c2010. (Italian)
- Guillaume Robin, Lettrisme, le bouleversement des arts: essai sur le lettrisme et les différents mouvements artistiques, Paris: Hermann, 2010. Review.
- Nicole Brenez, ‘We support everything since the dawn of time that has struggled and still struggles.’ Introduction to lettrist cinema, Stockholm and Berlin: Moderna Muset/Sternberg Press, 2015, 72 pp. (English) [11]
- Kaira M. Cabañas, Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde, University of Chicago Press, 2015, 192 pp. (English)
- James Trier, "Guy Debord, the Lettrists, and the Lettrist International, 1951–1957", ch 2 in Trier, Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit, Leiden: Brill, 2019, pp 29-78. [12] (English)
Resources[edit]
- Lettriste Pages, eds. Karl Young and Karl Kempton
- Pre-Situationist Archive at Situationist International Online
- Lettriste - Situationniste - 1e Partie "Savoir vivre": 1946-1963 by François Letaillieur. Chronology and documents.
- Lettrist International in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
See also[edit]
Links[edit]
- "Wolman, Lettrism, Sound Poetry and Beyond", Radio Web MACBA, 2010, podcast.
- http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/35550338714/la-musique-lettriste-hypergraphique
- Lettrist International at French Wikipedia
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