ISOU, Isidore; Gabriel POMERAND and others. La Dictature Lettriste: Cahier d’un nouveau régime artistique. Paris: A. Der (imprimeur). 1946.
8vo. Soft cream covers lettered in black and red to front cover; pp. 79, [1]; soiling and toning to covers but internally clean, 1.5cm section to head of spine exposed; very good.
The first issue of the first Lettrist publication.
This is the first and only issue of the journal of the self-proclaimed “only contemporary artistic avant-garde movement”, founded by Isidore Isou in Paris in 1946. It contains the founding manifesto of the movement, [Poetic and Musical Principles of the Lettrist Movement]. This was written collaboratively by Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand, and other Lettrists, but their identities remain uncertain. The title [Lettrist Dictatorship] was highly provocative in the postwar context. This publication holds particular importance in the history of Lettrism, as it identifies the movement’s original members before they faded into obscurity and were supplanted by the now-iconic names of Dufrêne, Brau, Wolman, Debord, and Lemaître.
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