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lettrism|ˈlɛtrɪz(ə)m|
Also in Fr. form lettrisme.
[ad. F. lettrisme, f. letter n.1 + -ism.]
Applied to a movement in French art and literature, characterized by a repudiation of meaning, and the use of letters (sometimes invented) as isolated units. So ˈlettrist, lettriste n. and a.
1946Time 2 Dec. 31/2 Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou..is a theory of poetry as ‘rhythmic architecture’. The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists..prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. 1948Spectator 9 Apr. 432/2, I have been reading this week some poems written in the new mode of ‘lettrisme’. 1949Commentary VIII. 183/2 ‘The new art,’ declared Isou (his real name is Isidore Goldstein), ‘accepts as its subject matter the letters reduced to, and become simply, themselves, replacing completely all poetic and musical elements which go beyond the letters in order to shape them into coherent works.’ Thus was born Lettrisme, which may be regarded as a resurrection of some old avant-garde theories, or as a postwar symptom comparable to the explosions of Surrealism and Dada after World War I. 1951Amer. Mercury LXXII. 659 In no time at all he [sc. Isidore Isou] was writing ‘lettrist’ poetry and he and his followers were assaulting the ears of everybody in the cafés of the Latin Quarter. 1962Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Apr. 246/4 Hausmann's lettrist interview with some hypothetical French lettristes. 1964Ibid. 3 Sept. 796/3 Lettrism is a creative movement..which claims to be able first to revolutionize every aesthetic discipline..from poetry to the theatre, by way of painting, and then to renovate the other cultural domains, whether philosophical or scientific. 1971J. Willett in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 244/2 The Lettrists in Paris and the Brazilian concrete poets of the 1950s, who were alike in their concentration on the appearance and sound of words or individual letters. |