lettrism
lettrism is the alternative letter-case form of Lettrism.
Proper noun capitalized: Lettrism
Lettrism
- A French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.
- So if lettrism, like Dada, came out of a reaction against a world war, Lettrism did not remain a protest . . . [but became] an exaltation of permanently renewed arts, philosophy, scientific knowledge, technology; […]1983, Tom McDonough, quoting Jean-Paul Curtay, Lettrism: A Neo-Dadaism?, quoted in Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, MIT Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 442
- Isou's lettrism was the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk in the grip of decomposition, a project for the total destruction of art, that is, a project of total art, another avatar of what Mallarmé ironically referred to as the Book, […]2006, Vincent Kaufmann, translated by Robert Bononno, Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN
Forms of lettrism
| alternative form | Letterism |
|---|---|
| alternative form | lettrism |
Origin of lettrism
From French Lettrisme, ultimately from lettre (“letter”).
Questions about lettrism
- What does lettrism mean?
- Lettrism means a French avant-garde art and literary movement established in the mid-1940s, owing inspiration to Dada and surrealism.
- What is lettrism the alternative letter-case form of?
- Lettrism is the alternative letter-case form of Lettrism.
- What part of speech is lettrism?
- Lettrism is a proper noun.
Words near lettrism in the dictionary
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