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Isidore Isou
1925 – 2007 Botoșani
Founder of Lettrism in post-war Paris.
Isou arrived in Paris in 1945 and launched Lettrism, a movement of sound poetry and 'hypergraphic' painting made of letters and signs; his film 'Venom and Eternity' (1951) shocked Cannes.
Works
Notable works
№ 01
Venom and Eternity
No freely-licensed image
№ 01 · 1951Venom and Eternity
Film
№ 02
Hypergraphic paintings
No freely-licensed image
№ 02 · 1950s–60sHypergraphic paintings
Oil on canvas
Centre Pompidou, Paris
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