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.
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