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THE VANGUARD MESSIAH
LETTRISM BETWEEN JEWISH MYSTICISM AND THE AVANT-GARDE |
| By: |
Sami Sjoberg |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£84.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3110427796 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783110427790 |
| Publisher: |
DE GRUYTER |
| Pub. date: |
15 July, 2015 |
| Series: |
Europaisch-judische Studien - Beitrage 21 |
| Pages: |
201 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| US Grade: |
College Graduate Student |
| Illustrations: |
6 black & white line drawings, 6 schw.-w. Zeichn. |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
De Gruyter Oldenbourg |
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Returnable |
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