Through the detailed analysis of
Antonin Artaud's
psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.
Isidore Isou (1925, Botosani, Romania – 2007, Paris), the ingenious Romanian poet, artist, economist, novelist, film-maker, choreographer and theoretician, created in 1945 the last avant-garde movement to attempt to overthrow everything –
Lettrism, a movement that would embrace personalities as diverse as Gabriel Pomerand, Maurice Lemaître, Gil J Wolman and Guy Debord. Isou is the author of a huge body of work centered on the act of creation, for which he proposed a method,
Creatics, which is a systematic approach to understanding and grasping the mechanics of creation.
See also
Frédéric Acquaviva: Isidore Isou;
Frédéric Alix : Penser l'art et le monde après 1945 – Isidore Isou, essai d'archéologie d'une pensée;
Fragments pour Isidore Isou.