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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

My name is Isou.

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

At Gallimard, I was known as Isidore Isou Goldstein.

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

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.

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 ).

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Reportedly, it received a cold reception among delegates, with fellow Buddhists making no attempt to greet Gyaltsen Norbu during greeting ceremonies ahead of the conference on Wednesday Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama had not been invited, because he is viewed by China as " a long-time stubborn secessionist who has tried to split his Chinese motherland and break the unity among different ethnic groups.

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