The Vanguard Messiah
Lettrism between Jewish Mysticism and the Avant-Garde
(Sprache: Englisch)
In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925-2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s....
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In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925-2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasises its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism's renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou's theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.
Autoren-Porträt von Sami Sjöberg
Sami Sjöberg, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sami Sjöberg
- 2015, VII, 201 Seiten, 6 Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, mit Abbildungen, Masse: 15,9 x 23,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: OLDENBOURG
- ISBN-10: 3110427796
- ISBN-13: 9783110427790
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"The book is the first systematic and elaborate study of the role of the Jewish tradition in the avant-garde movement of lettrism."Studies in Spirituality 26/2016
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