My mother called me Isou, only it ’ s written differently in Romanian.

Isou, it ’ s my name!

Only in Romanian it ’ s written Izu, but in French it ’ s Isou.

Isou and Pomerand disrupt a performance of Tzara ’ s La Fuite at the Vieux-Colombier.

Isou ’ s first two books are published by Gallimard: Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique ( Introduction to a New Poetry and a New Music ) and L ' Agrégation d ’ un nom et d ’ un messie ( Aggregation of a Name and a Messiah ).

The former sets out Isou ’ s theory of the ' amplic ' and ' chiselling ' phases, and, within this framework, presents his views on both the past history and the future direction of poetry and music.

The latter is more biographical, discussing the genesis of Isou ’ s ideas, as well as exploring Judaism.

Also published, the first of several works on political theory, Isou ’ s Traité d ’ économie nucléaire: Le soulèvement de la jeunesse ( Treatise of Nuclear Economics: Youth Uprising ).

Isou publishes first metagraphic novel, Les journaux des dieux ( The Gods ’ Diaries ), followed soon afterwards by Pomerand ’ s Saint Ghetto des Prêts ( Saint Ghetto of the Loans ) and Lemaître ’ s Canailles ( Scoundrels ).

Isou completes his first film, Traité de bave et d ’ éternité ( Treatise of Slime and Eternity ), which will soon be followed by Lemaître ’ s Le film est déjà commencé?

Under the auspices of Jean Cocteau, a prize for ' best avant-garde ' is specially created and awarded to Isou ’ s film.

This is significant for including Debord ’ s first appearance in print, alongside work from Wolman and Berna who, following an intervention at a Charlie Chaplin press conference at the Hotel Ritz in October, would join him in splitting from Isou ’ s group to form the Letterist International.

Isou introduces the concept of supertemporal art in L ’ Art supertemporel.

First work on architecture, Isou ’ s Manifeste pour le bouleversement de l ’ architecture ( Manifesto for the Overhaul of Architecture ).

Uncomfortable with the direction the group is going in, Lemaître — Isou ’ s right hand man for nearly half a century — begins to distance himself from it.

Isou moves into photography with Amos, ou Introduction à la métagraphologie ( Amos, or Introduction to Metagraphology ), theatre with Fondements pour la transformation intégrale du théâtre ( The Foundations of the Integrated Transformation of the Theatre ), painting with Les nombres ( The Numbers ), and dance with Manifeste pour une danse ciselante ( Manifesto for Chiselling Dance ).

Isou identified the most basic elements of poetic creation as letters — i. e. uninterpreted visual symbols and acoustic sounds — and he set out the parameters for new ways of recombining these ingredients in the name of new aesthetic goals.

In 1960, Isidore Isou created supertemporal art: a device for inviting and enabling an audience to participate in the creation of a work of art.

The influential writer Guy Debord and the artist Gil J. Wolman worked with Isou for a while, before breaking away to form the Lettrist International, which latter merged with the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International, a dissident revolutionary group.

" Isou was upset with this, his own attitude being that Chaplin deserved respect as one of the great creators of the cinematic art.

" Isou was keen to distance himself from his younger acolytes ' tract.

The breakaway group felt that he was no longer relevant, and they turned Isou's own words back against him: " We appreciated the importance of Chaplin's work in its own time, but we know that today novelty lies elsewhere, and ' truths which no longer entertain become lies ' ( Isou ).

Although the LI had in fact already been covertly formed by Guy Debord and Gil J. Wolman in June 1952, even before the Chaplin intervention and the public split from Isou, it was not formally established until 7 December 1952.

Among the Surrealists, André Breton was a significant influence, but Isou was dissatisfied by what he saw as the stagnation and theoretical bankruptcy of the movement as it stood in the 1940s.

At Gallimard, I was known as Isidore Isou Goldstein.

However, as Andrew Hussey reports, his attitude does eventually mellow: ' Now Isou forgave them and he saw ( it was crucial, Isou said, that I should understand this!

In poetry, Isou felt that this point was reached with Victor Hugo ( and in painting with Eugène Delacroix, in music with Richard Wagner .).

Isou identified the amplic phase of political theory and economics as that of Adam Smith and free trade ; its chiselling phase was that of Karl Marx and socialism.

Isidore Isou ( January 31, 1925 – July 28, 2007 ), born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist.

During the late stage of World War II he met Isidore Isou, the founder of lettrism, with whom he founded the artistic and literary review Da towards the end of 1944 ( Da was quickly censored ).

Leibniz, quantities which could not actually exist except conceptually, the founder of Lettrism, Isidore Isou, developed the notion of a work of art which, by its very nature, could never be created in reality, but which could nevertheless provide aesthetic rewards by being contemplated intellectually.

During the early 1950s, Goldstein would be signing himself ' Jean-Isidore Isou '; otherwise, it has always been ' Isidore Isou '.

' Isou ' is standardly taken to be a pseudonym, but Isou / Goldstein himself resists this interpretation.

Isou first discovered these phases through an examination of the history of poetry, but the conceptual apparatus he developed could very easily be applied to most other branches of art and culture.

Founded in the mid-1940s in France by Isidore Isou, the Letterists utilised material appropriated from other films, a technique which would subsequently be developed ( under the title of ' détournement ') in Situationist films.

Leibniz, quantities which could not actually exist except conceptually, the founder of Lettrism, Isidore Isou, developed the notion of a work of art which, by its very nature, could never be created in reality, but which could nevertheless provide aesthetic rewards by being contemplated intellectually.

In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory.

Situationist theory first emerged as a smaller tendency within Lettrism, an artistic and literary movement led by the Romanian-born French poet and visual artist Isidore Isou, originating in 1940s Paris.

Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou.

Isou viewed his fellow countryman, Tristan Tzara, as the greatest creator and rightful leader of the Dada movement, and dismissed most of the others as plagiarists and falsifiers.

My name is Isou.

Isou develops the principles of Lettrism, and begins writing the books that he would subsequently publish after his relocation to Paris.

Aged twenty, Isou arrives in Paris on August 23 after six weeks of clandestine travel.

Isou and Pomerand are joined by François Dufrêne.

Isou publishes Isou, ou la mécanique des femmes ( Isou, or the mechanics of women ), the first of several works of erotology, wherein he claims to have bedded 375 women in the preceding four years, and offers to explain how ( p. 9 ).