Letterist International
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| - | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | + | The '''Letterist International''' ('''LI''') was a [[Paris]]-based collective of radical artists and theorists between [[1952]] and [[1957]], who provide the link between [[Isidore Isou]]'s [[Lettrism|Letterist]] group and the [[Situationist International]]. The spelling 'Lettrist' is also common in English, but 'Letterist' was the form the French group (''Internationale Lettriste'') themselves preferred, and used in their 1955 sticker: 'If you believe you have genius, or if you think you have only a brilliant intelligence, write the letterist internationale.' With regard to that second word, however, most scholars prefer 'International' to 'Internationale'. Such authors and translators as Donald Nicholson-Smith, Simon Ford, Sadie Plant and Andrew Hussey all agree on the 'Letterist International' spelling. |
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| + | The group was a motley assortment of novellists, [[sound poetry|sound poets]], painters, film-makers, revolutionaries, bohemians, alcoholics, petty criminals, lunatics, under-age girls and self-proclaimed failures. In the Summer of 1953, their average age was a mere twenty years old, rising to twenty nine and a half in 1957.<ref>''Internationale situationniste'', no. 2, p.17.</ref> In their blend of intellectualism, protest and hedonism—though differing in other ways, for instance in their total rejection of spirituality—they might be viewed as French counterparts of the American [[Beat Generation]], particularly in the form it took during the exact same period, i.e. before anyone from either group achieved any real fame, and were still having the adventures that would inform their later works and ideas.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | ||
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The Letterist International (LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists and theorists between 1952 and 1957, who provide the link between Isidore Isou's Letterist group and the Situationist International. The spelling 'Lettrist' is also common in English, but 'Letterist' was the form the French group (Internationale Lettriste) themselves preferred, and used in their 1955 sticker: 'If you believe you have genius, or if you think you have only a brilliant intelligence, write the letterist internationale.' With regard to that second word, however, most scholars prefer 'International' to 'Internationale'. Such authors and translators as Donald Nicholson-Smith, Simon Ford, Sadie Plant and Andrew Hussey all agree on the 'Letterist International' spelling.
The group was a motley assortment of novellists, sound poets, painters, film-makers, revolutionaries, bohemians, alcoholics, petty criminals, lunatics, under-age girls and self-proclaimed failures. In the Summer of 1953, their average age was a mere twenty years old, rising to twenty nine and a half in 1957.<ref>Internationale situationniste, no. 2, p.17.</ref> In their blend of intellectualism, protest and hedonism—though differing in other ways, for instance in their total rejection of spirituality—they might be viewed as French counterparts of the American Beat Generation, particularly in the form it took during the exact same period, i.e. before anyone from either group achieved any real fame, and were still having the adventures that would inform their later works and ideas.[1] [Apr 2007]
