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Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde de Kaira M. Cabañas

Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde

Autor Kaira M. Cabañas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2015
One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema. Highly influential, the Lettrists served as a bridge of sorts between the earlier works of the Dadaists and Surrealists and the later Conceptual artists.

Off-Screen Cinema is the first monograph in English of the Lettrists. Offering a full portrait of the avant-garde scene of 1950s Paris, it focuses on the film works of key Lettrist figures like Gil J Wolman, Maurice Lemaître, François Dufrêne, and especially the movement's founder, Isidore Isou, a Romanian immigrant whose “discrepant editing” deliberately uncoupled image and sound. Through Cabañas's history, we see not only the full scope of the Lettrist project, but also its clear influence on Situationism, the French New Wave, the New Realists, as well as American filmmakers such as Stan Brakhage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226174594
ISBN-10: 022617459X
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 90 halftones
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Kaira M. Cabañas is the author of several books, including Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art, which received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award and Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art, which was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. She was guest curator of Specters of Artaud at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and curator-at-large for Histories of Madness and Delirium at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Since 2023, she has served as the associate dean for academic programs and publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 To Salivate Is Not to Speak, as Boring as Watching Dust
2 French Cinema Dies of Suffocation
3 Spasmodic Spurts of White Light on a Sphere
4 Eroticism Should Occur in the Audience

Epilogue

Appendix: Letters from Stan Brakhage

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Recenzii

“Provides a richly analyzed and rewarding context for critical films and film theory from subsequent decades. Invaluable for those interested in avant-garde film and art. . . .  Highly recommended."

“Cabañas demonstrates that films such as Debord’s Hurlements en faveur de Sade, Wolman’s L’anticoncept, and Isou’s Traité de bave et d’éternité actually materialize the history of cinema: the flicker of light/dark passages recalling the opening years of filmic rictus, or passages of silence bringing us back to the period before the entrance of synchronized sound. Off-Screen Cinema is magnificently researched and argued, a pleasure to encounter.”

“Cabañas drives a wedge into our conventional ideas of avant-garde cinema, the relation between postwar modernist art and film, and the origins of the ideological critique of cinema by revealing the neglected, yet essential, role played by Lettrist cinema in Paris in the early 1950s. In finely chiseled prose, she details the revolutionary aspect of the cinematic work of Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, and Gil J Wolman, as well as the better-known Guy Debord, transforming our sense of the alternative histories and practices of cinema.”

“Cabañas’s careful account of the Lettrists gives her readers ample material to consider just what to make of these self-proclaimed and long-heroized bad boys.”

"Given that Lettrism has been primarily a French concern for a long time and that few texts have been translated, [this study is] utterly welcome."

“Fantastic. Off-Screen Cinema is an urgently necessary project, and a joy to read. It is an important book which I would gladly recommend to scholars of art and film history, performance history, and postwar French cultural studies. Destined to be widely read and discussed.”

“Cabañas has created a marvelously entertaining and eclectic exploration of not only the Lettrist Movement but also of its causes, consequences, and brilliant conceits. . . . This book has something for any reader—from the scholarly to the casual—who is interested in the avant-garde of art that flourished in Europe, especially in France, during those shattered post-WW II years of the 1950s to the early 1960s.”

"The study of twentieth-century art is greatly enriched by the sustained attention Cabañas grants to Lettrist cinema's brief flourishing, particularly where she demonstrates its impact on important modes of performative and critical practice to follow. . . .  Cabañas's essential study illuminates a vital episode in the longer history of the contemporary post-medium condition."
 

"Each of these four chapters contributes to bringing Lettrism out of its doctrinal isolation by parsing the relationships between Lettrist works and those of their contemporaries, both artists and theorists."