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Lettrisme

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 857 Collections and/or Records:

Romanesque, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-39567-41525
Scope and Contents

This is the ordinary edition. A deluxe edition of 30 copies with an original collage was also published and is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Romans-Photos / Devaux, Frederique., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-15277-15599
Scope and Contents

This book consists of several comic strip-like novels. This copy is unsigned, 10 copies were signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Saint Ghetto des Prets / Pomerand, Gabriel., 1950

 Item
Identifier: CC-27767-28895
Scope and Contents

The book consists of 44 visual poems that utilize rebuses to depict political messages dealing with the suffering of Jews during WWII in France. They are placed one to a page with documentation on the facing page. The poems consist of grids of Hebrew letters and mathematical formulas mixed with line drawings of images and pictograms that are presented with either black print on a white background or white print on a black background. This book is a seminal text in the historic origins of the Lettrist art movement in France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950

Saint Ghetto des Prets / Pomerand, Gabriel., 1950

 Item
Identifier: CC-29187-30534
Scope and Contents

The book consists of 44 visual poems that utilize rebuses to depict political messages dealing with the suffering of Jews during WWII in France. They are placed one to a page with documentation on the facing page. The poems consist of grids of Hebrew letters and mathematical formulas mixed with line drawings of images and pictograms that are presented with either black print on a white background or white print on a black background. This book is a seminal text in the historic origins of the Lettrist art movement in France. This limited edition copy is printed on special paper made by Papeteries Johannot and has its watermark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950

Saint Ghetto of the Loans / Pomerand, Gabriel ; Michael Kasper, translator., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44936-47108
Scope and Contents

This translation of the book in French consists of 44 visual poems that utilize rebuses to depict political messages dealing with the suffering of Jews during WWII in France. It has much smaller page size than the original. They are placed one to a page with documentation on the facing page. The poems consist of grids of Hebrew letters and mathematical formulas mixed with line drawings of images and pictograms that are presented with either black print on a white background or white print on a black background. This book is a seminal text in the historic origins of the Lettrist art movement in France. This translation into English that was done by Michael Kasper is also designated "Lost Literature Series #1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Saint ghetto of the loans / Pomerand, Gabriel ; Michael Kasper, translator ; Bhamati Viswanathan, translator ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-54248-643136
Scope and Contents

This is an important re-issue and translation of a 50's French Letterist classic. Includes the prose poem text in English and French on left page and pictograms on right hand page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006