Isidore Isou, born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century.
10 Facts About Isidore Isou
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Isidore Isou was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism.
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Isidore Isou initially traveled to Italy, where fellow experimental poet Giuseppe Ungaretti gave him a letter of introduction and recommendation under the pseudonym "Isidore Isou" to French writer Jean Paulhan, which made his entry into the literary world of the newly-liberated Paris much easier.
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In 1949, the young Isidore Isou published the novel Isidore Isou ou la mecanique des femmes, inspired by his obsessions with the 16-year-old muse and later conceptual artist Rhea Sue Sanders.
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Isidore Isou was an admirer of Chaplin's films and he considered the cinema legend to be undeserving of this attack.
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In 1951, Isidore Isou released his first movie, the experimental film Traite de bave et d'eternite, whose premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Isidore Isou is buried in the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Isidore Isou would go on to claim that his 1950 manifesto Youth Uprising: First Manifesto was a catalyst for the events of the 1968.
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In 2021, Andrew Hussey's book The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou was published by Reaktion Books.
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Isidore Isou's daughter, Catherine Goldstein, is a mathematician based in Paris.