Speaking East
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Speaking East

The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou

Andrew Hussey

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Speaking East

The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou

Andrew Hussey

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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 cafĂ©s, 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 Ă©lite. This is a vibrant account of the life and times of a pivotal figure in the history of modern art.

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Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781789144932
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Artist Biographies

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    Citation styles for Speaking East

    APA 6 Citation

    Hussey, A. (2021). Speaking East ([edition missing]). Reaktion Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2866734/speaking-east-pdf (Original work published 2021)

    Chicago Citation

    Hussey, Andrew. (2021) 2021. Speaking East. [Edition missing]. Reaktion Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/2866734/speaking-east-pdf.

    Harvard Citation

    Hussey, A. (2021) Speaking East. [edition missing]. Reaktion Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2866734/speaking-east-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

    MLA 7 Citation

    Hussey, Andrew. Speaking East. [edition missing]. Reaktion Books, 2021. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.