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==Publications==
 
==Publications==
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[[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)
 
(in French)
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* ''[http://debordiana.chez.com/francais/il.htm Internationale lettriste]'', 4 numbers, ed. G.-E. Debord, Paris: Internationale lettriste, Dec 1952-Jun 1954.  
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===Periodicals===
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*{{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}}
 
** [http://www.notbored.org/LI.html English translation], ''Not Bored!'', n.d. {{en}}
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* Guy Debord, "Les environs de Fresnes (1952-1953)", in Debord, ''Enregistrements magnétiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 2010. 
 
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* ''Visages de l’avant-garde 1953: Internationale lettriste'', Paris: Jean-Paul Rocher, 2010. Text from the LI that recalls the adventures of the lettrists between 1945 to February 1953, first published 2010.
 
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* Patrick Straram, ''Les bouteilles se couchent'' [1953], Paris: Allia, 2006. Semi-fictionalised contemporary account of the scene, written in 1953 but lost until recently.
 
  
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* ''[http://classiques.uqac.ca/contemporains/internationale_lettriste/Potlatch/Potlatch.html Potlatch: bulletin d'information de groupe français de l'Internationale lettriste]'', later ''Potlatch: bulletin d'information de l'Internationale lettriste'', 29 numbers (28 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]
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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}}
 
** ''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}}
 
** ''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}}
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** [[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}}
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** [http://lj.rossia.org/users/potlach/ Translations of selected articles in Russian], c2017. {{ru}}
  
 
* ''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]
 
* ''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===
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* Guy Debord, "Les environs de Fresnes" [1952-1953], in Debord, ''Enregistrements magnétiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 2010. 
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* ''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).
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* 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).
 
* 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).
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* Guy Debord, "Histoire de l'Internationale lettriste (1956)", in Debord, ''Enregistrements magnétiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
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* Guy Debord, "Histoire de l'Internationale lettriste" [1956], in Debord, ''Enregistrements magnétiques'', Paris: Gallimard, 2010.
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* ''Documents relatifs à la fondation de l'Internationale situationniste, 1948-1957'', Paris: Allia, 1985.
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* ''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]
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* 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.
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* 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]
  
 
; English translations
 
; English translations
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* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/li.html LI texts at Situationist International Online], incl. translations of 11 numbers of ''Potlatch''
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* [http://www.notbored.org/LI.html Translations on Not Bored!]
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* [http://www.notbored.org/LI.html Translations at NotBored.org]
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* [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/presitu/li.html LI texts on Situationist International Online]
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==
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* Eliane Brau, ''Le Situationnisme ou la Nouvelle Internationale'', Paris: Debresse, 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.
 
* Jean-Louis Brau, ''Le Singe appliqué'', Paris: Grasset, 1972; Paris: Le Dilettante, 2012.
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* Stewart 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}}
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* 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}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10589 Assalto alla cultura]'', trans. Luther Blissett, 1996. {{it}}
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** [[Stewart Home#Home1988|translations]]
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10589 El asalto a la cultura]'', trans. Jesus Carrillo and Jordi Claramonte, 2002. {{es}}
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* 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}}
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* Greil Marcus, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century]'', London: Penguin, 1989. {{en}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Rastros de carmín. Una historia secreta del siglo XX]'', trans. Damian Alou, 1993. {{es}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Ruj Lekesi: Yirminci Yüzyılın Gizli Tarihi]'', trans. Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1999. {{tr}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Rastros de carmín. Una historia secreta del siglo XX]'', trans. Damián Alou, Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993, 527 pp. {{es}}
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** ''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}}
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** ''Stopy rtěnky: tajná historie dvacátého století'', trans. Dušan Krejčí, Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 427 pp. {{cz}}
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=12932 Ruj lekesi: Yirminci Yüzyılın gizli tarihi]'', trans. Gürol Koca, Istanbul: Ayrıntı, 1999, 496 pp. {{tr}}
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** ''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.
 
* 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}}
 
* 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}}
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* 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]
 
* 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}}
 
* Kaira M. Cabañas, ''Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde'', University of Chicago Press, 2015, 192 pp. {{en}}
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* 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}}
  
 
==Resources==
 
==Resources==

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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.

Publications[edit]

Potlatch, 29 numbers, 1954-1957, PDFs, PDF (transcript).

(in French)

Periodicals[edit]

  • 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]
  • 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]

See also[edit]

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