Description
| Product ID: | 9781789144925 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Speaking East |
| Subtitle: | The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou |
| Authors: | Author: Andrew Hussey |
| Page Count: | 324 |
| Subjects: | Individual artists, art monographs, Individual artists, art monographs, Individual photographers, Individual architects and architectural firms, Biography: general, Individual photographers, Individual architects & architectural firms, Biography: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in 1945, he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, described as the missing link between Dada, Surrealism, Situationism, and May '68. In Speaking East, Andrew Hussey presents a colorful picture of the postwar Left Bank, where Lettrist fists flew in avantgarde punch-ups in Jazz clubs and cafes, and where Isou-as sexy and as charismatic as the young Elvis-gathered around him a group of hooligan disciples who argued, drank, and had sex with the Parisian intellectual elite. This is a vibrant account of the life and times of a pivotal figure in the history of modern art. |
| Imprint Name: | Reaktion Books |
| Publisher Name: | Reaktion Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-09-13 |