Speaking East

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Speaking East

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Author: Andrew Hussey

Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9781789144925

Date: 13th September, 2021

Publisher: REAKTION BOOKS

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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 cafés, 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 élite. This is a vibrant account of the life and times of a pivotal figure in the history of modern art.

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