ISOU, Isidore, Maurice LEMAÎTRE, Gil J. WOLMAN et al. UR (Première Série). Paris. 1950-1953.
8vo. Vol. 1: Soft burnt orange covers, vol. 2: formatted in the style of a magazine with text in two columns, stapled, vol. 3: grey soft covers, stapled; vol. 1: pp. 181, [3], vol.2: pp. 20, vol.3: 47, [1]; general wearing, some toning; very good.
The first major lettrist magazine, complete in three volumes.
UR is one of the iconic series of magazines published by the Lettrists. The first series (including the unfindable third issue) ran from 1950 to 1953 and belongs to one of the most creative and fertile periods of the Lettrist movement, mixing theoretical texts, poems, photographs, and drawings by the most important first-generation Lettrists. Within these three issues we find the first poems by François Dufrêne, the first theoretical text on Lettrist plastic arts by Isidore Isou, the first plates of the metagraphic novel by Maurice Lemaître, as well as the first text on lettrist cinema and the first photographic works by Isou and Lemaître; texts by Jean-Louis Brau, Gil Wolman, Serge Berna and Gabriel Pomerand, along with responses by André Breton and Louis-Ferdinand Céline to a survey on Lettrism.
The second series of UR was published by Editions Brunidor much later, between 1964 and 1967, in the form of seven portfolios (plus a box) of artworks by the second generation of Lettrists, printed in editions ranging from 30 to 130 copies. Included is the annoncement flyer for UR La Dictature Lettriste n°2 (with Wolman, Brau, Pomerand, Isou, Lemaître), 270 x 210 mm, 1951.
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