The Lettristes themselves prefer the spelling ' Letterism ' for the Anglicised term, and this is the form that is used on those rare occasions when they produce or supervise English translations of their writings: however, ' Lettrism ' is at least as common in English usage.

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.

He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism.

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

It started with the Lettrism and then with a Situationist slogan painted on a wall in Paris.

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.

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.

Libertarian Marxism includes such currents as Luxemburgism, council communism, left communism, Socialisme ou Barbarie, the Johnson – Forest tendency, world socialism, Lettrism / Situationism and operaismo / autonomism, and New Left.

Letterist International had almost no ideas in common with Isou's Lettrism, of which used the name only ironically ; instead, it was more a draft version of the Situationist International, of which anticipated many of the core ideas.

: The Situationist International ( SI ) was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism, Lettrism and the early 20th century European artistic and political avant-gardes.

The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.

`` Ah, then please tell me where the frontier is because this gentleman here '' -- I indicated the French occupation officer -- `` informs me that Germany is just on the other side of him ''.

Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.

Across the road is the kitchen, and waiters bearing great trays of dishes dodge traffic as nimbly as their French colleagues at the restaurant in the Place Du Tertre in Paris.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

This is important because, despite all the efforts of the French government, an appreciable segment of France's export trade in wines is still tainted with a misrepresentation approaching downright dishonesty, and there are many too many negociants who would rather turn a sou than amass a creditable reputation overseas.

Today it is occupied by the French Embassy.

Claude Jannequin's vocal description of a battle ( the French equivalents of tarantara, rum-tum-tum, and boom-boom-boom are very picturesque ) is lots of fun, and the singers get a sense of grace and shape into other chansons by Jannequin and Lassus.

BAM is the unlikely name of a French recording company whose full label is Editions De La boite A Musique.

What is interesting about these chamber works here is how they all reveal the aspect of French music that was moving toward the rococo.

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.

Mrs. Reavey's work is written for the stage -- it is mentioned for an off-Broadway production in the fall -- and, in addition, employs an avant-garde structure that particularly needs to be seen if comprehension is to be encouraged.

From a sociological point of view, Danielle Lindemann has noted the " embattled purity regime " in which many pro-dommes emphasise their specialist knowledge and professional skills, while distancing themselves from economic criteria for success, in a way which is comparable to avant-garde artists.

By the later 19th century, history painting was often explicitly rejected by avant-garde movements such as the Impressionists ( except for Édouard Manet ) and the Symbolists, and according to one recent writer " Modernism was to a considerable extent built upon the rejection of History Painting ... All other genres are deemed capable of entering, in one form or another, the ' pantheon ' of modernity considered, but History Painting is excluded ".

Since the word kabuki is believed to derive from the verb kabuku, meaning " to lean " or " to be out of the ordinary ", kabuki can be interpreted as " avant-garde " or " bizarre " theatre.

He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective – an avant-garde filmmaking movement – although his own films have taken a variety of approaches.

Faith No More's song " Epic " is considered by some to be the earliest incarnation of nu metal, with antiMusic writing " Epic was ( unfortunately for a truly avant-garde outfit like Faith No More ) the model prototype of what more than a few AR label recruiters were looking to tap.

This is in accordance with the time he produced this image, as other famous artists creating avant-garde abstract representations of historically significant events, such as Motherwell ’ s commemoration of the Spanish Civil War, Pollock ’ s investigation of the Northwest Coast Indian art, Rothko ’ s and Newman ’ s interpretations of Biblical stories, etc.

Adorno's work sets out from a central insight he shares with all early 20th century avant-garde art: The recognition of what is primitive in ourselves and the world itself.

is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her marriage to John Lennon ( 1969 – 1980 ) and her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking.

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and later joined by Juan Gris, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, Henri Le Fauconnier, and Fernand Léger, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture.

Crossover Poetics or the combining of traditional and avant-garde in creating the play is the main subject in the second edition " New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century " ( Routledge 2012 ).

Mauvais Sang is an avant-garde thriller in which she plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc ( Piccoli ) who falls in love with Alex ( Denis Lavant ), a young thief.

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles.

He was an artist putting down paint on canvas creating works not to shock and outrage, but to say, “ This is what I see .” More appreciated over the years by collectors than academicians and critics, Modigliani was indifferent to staking a claim for himself in the intellectual avant-garde of the art world.

The concept of avant-garde may come into play in determining what art is taken notice of by galleries, museums, and collectors.

Finally what makes this gallery extremely important is the amazing collection Russian avant-garde with works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov and so on.

For avant-garde metal, most of the experimentation is in the use of unusual sounds and instruments-being more unorthodox and questioning of musical conventions.

New experimental and avant-garde music is performed by Ensemble Offspring, Halcyon, The Noise and others, at the recently refurbished Carriageworks and many small inner-city cafes, warehouses, theatres etc.

More recently, the song " Revolution 1 ( Take 20 )", a previously unknown track, surfaced in 2009 on a bootleg and is supposed to connect " Revolution 1 " and the avant-garde " Revolution 9 " ( both of which appeared on The Beatles ) in an attempt by Lennon to record one long version of " Revolution " before ultimately splitting the two songs up.

The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism.

It was this meaning that was evoked by the Saint Simonian Olinde Rodrigues in his essay, " L ' artiste, le savant et l ' industriel ", (“ The artist, the scientist and the industrialist ”, 1825 ) which contains the first recorded use of " avant-garde " in its now-customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to " serve as people's avant-garde ", insisting that " the power of the arts is indeed the most immediate and fastest way " to social, political, and economic reform.

The concept of avant-garde refers primarily to artists, writers, composers and thinkers whose work is opposed to mainstream cultural values and often has a trenchant social or political edge.