{"product_id":"rewriting-the-world-isidore-isou-and-the-lettrist-book","title":"Rewriting the World: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsidore Isou (b. Jean-Isidore Goldstein, 1925-2007) escaped an anti-Semitic pogrom in his native Romania and arrived in Paris in 1945 with an urgent mission: to found a new avant-garde movement – Lettrisme – which would surpass Dada and transform the world towards a paradisiacal society based on creativity. Lettrisme engaged every art form – painting, poetry, performance, film – and addressed theoretical subjects from economics to erotology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is a key Lettrist form, both as a carrier and as an expression of Lettrist ideas. Isou conceived of the new Lettrist novel as metagraphic — or, later, hypergraphic — in that it would combine all possible codes of communication: text, images, mathematical formula, music, asemic writing, and more. Isou first articulated and demonstrated his ideas in Les Journaux des dieux (The Diaries of the Gods, 1950), a book which included a fifty-page sequence that combined a dizzying array of communicative systems in layers of overlapping blue, red, and yellow inks. [publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Center for Book Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358354612564,"sku":"A8B-37621","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/rewritingword.jpg?v=1790814903","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/rewriting-the-world-isidore-isou-and-the-lettrist-book","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}