Lettrists

Unlike similar European artists groups that arose in the mid-to-late 1950s--Cobra, The Lettrists, the Situationist International--the Fluxus and Happenings artists issued no manifestos informed by political, economic or social theories, nor did they resemble the Vienna Actionists in being arrested by authorities for making art that was "subversive to the interests of the state," despite being as rooted in Dada And Surrealism as the European groups were.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Unlike similar European artists groups that arose in the mid-to-late 1950s--Cobra, The Lettrists, the Situationist International--the Fluxus and Happenings artists issued no manifestos informed by political, economic or social theories, nor did they resemble the Vienna Actionists in being arrested by authorities for making art that was "subversive to the interests of the state," despite being as rooted in Dada And Surrealism as the European groups were.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Both the Lettrists and the Situationists felt that ON symboloised a broad period of Egyptian history and thus a sense of balance between darkness and light. '

Brit Lit Blogs 2009

Les Lettres Tristes in part after the Lettrists-political artists and agitators in mid-20 th century Paris.

unknown title 2009

Finally, the 'unitary urbanism' advanced by Constant developed two practices dear to the Lettrists and the Situationists alike: the dérive, defined in the SI journal as 'a transient passage through varied ambiances '; and' psychogeography ', defined as' the study of the specific effects of the geographical environment '.

London Review of Books 2009

Both the Lettrists and the Situationists felt that ON symboloised a broad period of Egyptian history and thus a sense of balance between darkness and light. '

Brit Lit Blogs 2009

The fragmentation and distortion of the motif is applied also to letters, recalling the Cubist and Futurist explorations of lettering and the programmatic claims of the Lettrists whom Villeglé and Hains were close in the early 1950s.

Art Knowledge News 2008

Combining elements of the practice of such now "historic" movements as the New Realists, the Lettrists and the Situationist International, Villeglé's work, rooted in the contemporary, is held in high regard by many of the younger artists of today.

Art Knowledge News 2008

Beginning 'There is is no longer any Temple of the Sun' there is a disturbing resonance with the recognition by both Lettrists and Situationists that the 33rd degree Masonry embodied the final syllable of the secret word JAHBULON as a reference to the Biblical city of On - more recently Heliopolis - refined by ANONYMOUS to the deceitful (cunning) Albertopolis - a name which covertly draws in the European Monarchical cabbala linking the Kaiser to Ra, the sun-God, rededicated to Osiris, God of the Dead.

Brit Lit Blogs 2009