{"product_id":"the-vanguard-messiah-sami-sjberg-9783110427790","title":"The Vanguard Messiah: Lettrism Between Jewish Mysticism and the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925-2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasises its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism's renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou's theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sami Sj?berg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3110427796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783110427790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter Oldenbourg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Sami Sj?berg","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46292976271615,"sku":"9783110427790","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32c40412-293c-4f03-8118-c1e93010ab55.jpg?v=1730210723","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-vanguard-messiah-sami-sjberg-9783110427790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}