2018-04-24 Guide to the Paul T. Lambert Collection of Inism and Lettrism Publications, 1955-2003 SPEC.RARE.0118 Finding aid prepared by Courtney Bishop Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2018 April This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2024-06-10T10:22-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard Paul T. Lambert Collection of Inism and Lettrism Publications SPEC.RARE.0118 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections 3.57 Cubic feet 1955-2003 Inism and Lettrism are a part of an international avant-garde movement. Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement which started in Paris; Inism is similar to Lettrism and uses poetic declarations and artwork. The Paul T. Lambert Collection of Inism and Lettrism Publications contains publications in the style of Inism and Lettrism avant-garde and includes work by Maurice Lemaître, Isidore Isou, Gérard-Philippe Broutin, and Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi. Materials are dated 1955-2003. (8) 5” letter document boxes; (1) 2.5” letter document box; (1) oversize folder; (1) flat box English, French, Italian Lambert, Paul (Paul Thaddeus) Arrangement of Materials

Materials are arranged in chronological order and those with the same date are arranged alphabetically within that year. Undated materials is arranged alphabetically at the end.

 Acquisitions Information

Accession No. RARE.2015.0011: Paul T. Lambert, April 2015

 Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Paul T. Lambert Collection of Inism and Lettrism Publications, SPEC.RARE.0118, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University

 Access to Materials

Materials in this collection are available for use, but may be used in the Thompson Library Special Collections reading room only.

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 Historical Note

Inism and Lettrism are a part of an international avant-garde movement. Lettrism is a French avant-garde (Lettrisme in French) movement which was started in Paris by Isidore Isou, a Romanian immigrant, in 1946. It has roots in Dada and Surrealism. Inism (Inismo in Italian) is similar to Lettrism and uses poetic declarations and artwork. As of 2018, Paul T. Lambert is an experimental author and artist who collects Inism and Lettrism.

 Scope and Contents

The Paul T. Lambert Collection of Inism and Lettrism Publications contains publications in the style of Inism and Lettrism avant-garde and includes publications by Maurice Lemaître, Isidore Isou, Gérard-Philippe Broutin, and Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi. When known, an item has a note in this inventory indicating whether it is Inism or Lettrism. Materials are dated 1955-2003.

 Related Materials Paul T. Lambert Papers Bertozzi, Gabriele-Aldo Broutin, Gérard-Philippe Isou, Isidore Lemaître, Maurice, 1926- Avant-garde Inism (Art movement)--20th century Inism (Art movement)--21st century Lettrism--20th century Lettrism--21st century Publications (documents) Isou (Isidore): "Le Centre de Plein Emploi" 1 1 1955-1956 Lemaître (Maurice): "Carnets d'un Fanatique" 1 2 1960 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Lemaître (Maurice): "Carnets d'un Fanatique II" 1 3 1960 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Kaprow (Allan): "Some Recent Happenings" 1 5 1966 "Manifestos" 1 4 1966 Scope and Contents

Authors: Ay-o, Pilip Corner, W. E. B. Dubois Clubs, Oyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, John Giorno, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Nam June Paik, Diter Rot, Jerome Rothenberg, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams

 Vostell (Wolf): "Berlin and Phenomena" 1 6 1966 Antin (David): "Definitions" 1 7 1967 Isou (Isidore): "La mystification encyclopédique et ontologique de la philosophie" 1 8 1967 Lemaître (Maurice): "Les Aventures d'el Momo" 1 9 1968 Lemaître (Maurice): "Le Lettrisme dans le Roman et les Arts Plastiques" 1 10 1970 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Lemaître (Maurice): "Lew marionnettes photographiques" 1 11 1970 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Broutin (G. Ph.): "Rue du Parc Cheviron" 1 12 1971 Furnival (John): "Ceolfrith 14" RARE Shared 2 1971 Lemaître (Maurice): "La Psychokladolgie" 1 14 1971 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Lemaître (Maurice): "Poèmes et Musique Lettristes" 1 13 1971 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Finch (Peter): "Typewriter Poems" 1 15 1972 Isou (Isidore): "Considerations sur la Mort et l'Enterrements" 1 16 1972 September "L'Irreductibilite Lettriste No. 1" 1 17 1973 Scope and Contents

Authors: Gérard-Philippe Broutin, Jean-Paul Curtay, Jean-Pierre Gillard; Lettrism

 c.i.c.k.-broutin "2nd Festival International d'Art Infinitesimal et Supertemporel" 1 19 1976 July 28 Scope and Contents

Authors: Gérard Broutin, Francoise Canal, Jean-Paul Curtay, Albert Dupont, Jean-Pierre Gillard, Antoine Grimaud, Isidore Isou, Francois poyet, Roland Sabatier, Genevieve Tasiv, Glorence Villers

 c.i.c.k.-broutin "2nd Festival International d'Art Infinitesimal et Supertemporel" (partial) 1 18 1976 July 28 Scope and Contents

Authors: Gérard Broutin, Francoise Canal, Jean-Paul Curtay, Albert Dupont, Jean-Pierre Gillard, Antoine Grimaud, Isidore Isou, Francois poyet, Roland Sabatier, Genevieve Tasiv

 Lemaître (Maurice): "Qu'est-ce que la Psychokladolgie?" 2 1 1976 Sabatier (Roland): "12 dé-chants" 2 2 1976 Sanders (Ed): "Investigative Poetry" 2 3 1976 Shiomi (Mieko): "Spatial Poem" 2 4 1976 Isou (Isidore): "Introduction a l'Esthetique Imaginaire" 2 5 1977 Lemaître (Maurice): "Pour une Renovation du Prix Nobel" 2 7 1977 Marchal (Alain): "Ecritures" 2 8 1977 Spring "Salon Ecritures" 2 6 1977 October Lemaître (Maurice): "Le Mouvement Lettriste contre la Psychiatrie, la Pyschanalyse et l'anti-Psychiatrie" 2 11 1978 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Sabatier (Roland): "Esquisses: suivies de suites sur faire et de-faire l'hypergraphie" 2 12 1978 "Salon Ecritures" 2 10 1978 Isou (Isidore): "Bernard Buffet ou le Recul de la Peinture" 2 13 1979 Isou (Isidore): "Contre le Cinéma Situationniste, Néo-Nazi" 2 15 1979 Isou (Isidore): "Le Bluff Francoise Sagan" 2 14 1979 Isou (Isidore): "Les minus drouet et les Genies de la Poesie Moderne" 2 16 1979 Isou (Isidore): "Le Theâtre Créateur et les Imitateurs du Passé" 2 17 1979 Menthe (Pierre): "Les Films de Maurice Lemaître" 2 9 1979 Aga-Rossi (Laura): "Qu'est-ce que l'Internationale Novatrice Infinitesimale" 2 18 1980 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Lemaître (Maurice): "Eden C.P.S." 2 21 1980 Lemaître (Maurice): "Photos banales, Photos Ratées et Autres Clichés Iovateurs, y Compris des Portraits Originaux" 2 22 1980 "Revue d'histoire du Cinéma" series 2, number 1 2 23 1980 Spring "Revue d'histoire du Cinema" series 2, number 2 3 1 1980 Summer "Salon Ecritures" 2 19 1980 June/July "Lettrisme" series 10-12 2 20 1980 October-December Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Isou (Isidore): "La Conception Creatice Quintessentielle Contre la Conception 'Topologique,' Coupable d'avoir Faussé l'intéret d'un sous-babour-lormian de Dada, Escroc de l'art"" 3 3 1981 Lemaître (Maurice): "La Création Persécutée en France I" 3 4 1981 Lemaître (Maurice): "La Création Persécutée en France III" 3 5 1981 "Lettrisme: Numéro Spécial" series 10, number 10-12 3 7 1981 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 "Lettrisme" series 10, number 7-9 3 6 1981 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 "Salon Ecritures" 3 2 1981 Aga-Rossi (Laura) (editor): "Sekondo Kwaderno Ini" 3 8 1984 Aga-Rossi (Laura) (editor): "Sekondo Kwaderno Ini" 3 9 1984 Foster (Stephen C.): "Lettrisme: Into the Present" 3 10 1984 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Isou (Isidore): "Dialogue avec Rembrandt" 3 11 1984 Isou (Isidore): "Jonas ou le Corps à la recherche de son âme" 3 12 1984 "Communication" 4 1 1986 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Parole con un disegus di Priom Conti" 4 2 1987 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Vai" 10 1987 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Isou (Isidore): "Pour et Contre Bertozzi" 4 3 1987 Isou (Isidore): "Pour et Contre Bertozzi" 4 4 1987 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Che Cos'e' Il Librogetto" 4 5 1989 Broutin (Gérard-Philippe): "Peintures 1968-1989" 4 6 1989 Isou (Isidore): "Entretiens avec Jean Cocteau" 4 7 1989 Isou (Isidore): "Les Tableaux les Plus Intelligents de l'Histoire de la Peinture et aussi les Sculptures les plus Intelligentes de l'histoire de la sculpture" 4 9 1989 "Lettrisme" 4 8 1989 Scope and Contents

Authors: Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître, Roland Sabatiier, Alain Satie, François Poyet, Gérard-Philippe Broutin; lettrism

 Essegi (Edizioni): "Le Lettrisme" 4 10 1989-1990 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Inismo 1980-1990" 4 11 1990 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Broutin (Gérard-Philippe): "L'Avant-Garde Photographique Lettriste (1951-1990)" 4 12 1990 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Filliou (Robert): "Robert Filliou" 4 13 1990 Isou (Isidore): "Dialogue avec Rembrandt" 4 14 1990 Londei (Danielle): "L'Inismo" 5 2 1990 Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Reliures Lettristes" 5 1 1990 Scope and Contents

Authors: Amarger Broutin Canal, Caravan Devaux Dupont, Hachette Delatour, Lemaître Isou Letaillieur, Leoncini Muller, Poyet Richol Roehmer, Sabatier Satié Spacagna; lettrism

 Santos (A. J.): "Koine" 5 3 1990 Broutin (Gérard-Philippe): "Je Pilote Neuf" 5 4 1990-1991 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Giorgio Mattioli l'inismo" 5 5 1991 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Broutin (Gérard-Philippe): "3e Festival International d'ArtInfinitesimal et Supertemporal" 5 6 1991 June-December Broutin (Gérard-Philippe): "Commentaires sur 'Deuxième Lettre Ouverte à Alain Satié sur le Thème du Plagiat'" 5 7 1991 "Portraits et Autoportraits d'une Avant-Garde: Le Lettrisme (1950-1990)" 5 8 1991 Scope and Contents

Lettrism

 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Rimbaud" 5 9 1991-1992 "Ini Smo: Dell'avanguerdia il fonema" 5 12 1992 Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Manifeste pour la Renovation de l'Architecture" 5 13 1992 Scope and Contents

Authors: Isidore Isou, Roland Sabatier, Alain Satié, Micheline Hachette, François Poyet, Gérard-Philippe Broutin, Woodie Roehmer, Ablert Dupont, Frédérique Devaux, Michel Amarger, Virginie Caraven, Jean-Paul D'Arville

 Solfanelli (Mrio) (editor): "Inismo Spagnoloe Argentino" 5 11 1992 Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Viaggio a Pourrières e Fabrezan" 5 10 1992 Scope and Contents

Authors: Laura Aga-Rossi, Gabriele-Aldo Bertozzi, François Proïa

 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Inismo" 6 1 1992 April Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Sport Umbria" 6 2 1992 October Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 1 6 4 1993 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 2 6 5 1993 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 3 6 6 1993 "L'Internazionale Novatrice Infinitesimale e la Francia" 6 7 1993 "Koine" 6 3 1993 September/October Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 4 6 9 1994 D'Antuono (Nicola): "Una Prima Istantanea sull'Inismo" 6 11 1994 Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Femeinismo" 7 5 1994 Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Inizial" 6 15 1994 "Inizial" 6 16 1994 Isou (Isidore): "Mise au Point sur ma Création et ma Personne" 7 1 1994 Kelma (Inia) (editor): "El Inismo Cubano" 7 3 1994 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Kelma (Inia) (editor): "El Inismo Italiano" 7 2 1994 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Lora-Totino (Arrigo): "Chiaro Scuro" 7 4 1994 Mattioli (Giorgio): "Aiuoe" 6 8 1994 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Porter (Bern): "SEe(MAN)TIC" 7 6 1994 "Grafe Koine: La Fabrica de Signos" number 1 6 12 1994 May/June "Info Ini" 6 14 1994 August Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Info Ini" 6 10 1994 October Scope and Contents

Inism

 "Grafe Koine: La Fabrica de Signos" number 2 6 13 1994 October/November Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 8-9 7 8 1995 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "La Signora Proteo" 7 10 1995 Broutin (Gérard-Philippe): "Différents Infinis" 7 11 1995 "Inika Alfabetika" 7 12 1995 "Ininfancia" 7 13 1995 Roman and Molero: "Alquigramia" 7 14 1995 "Inista" number 4-5 7 7 1995 November Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Quaderni di Bérénice: Mail art/Arte postale Fotoinigrafia Letteratura odeporica Letteratura prêt-à-porter" 7 9 1995 December Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 10-11 7 8 1996 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Rimbaud" 7 16 1996 Prior (Molero): "Viaggio a Roma e a Descara" 7 17 1996 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 18 7 11 1998 "Inipress" 8 2 1998 November Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Angelo Merante" 8 3 1999 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 20 8 4 1999 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 21 8 6 1999 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "The Revolution Guide" 8 5 1999 Proïa (Francois) (editor): "Gabriele-Aldo Bertozzi Chi Sei?" 8 7 1999 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 23 8 4 2000 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 24 8 9 2000 "Letras Para Compartir" 8 10 2000 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 26 8 11 2001 Motta (Filippo): "Inism" 8 12 2001 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Ini" 9 1 2001-2002 Scope and Contents

Inism

 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo) (editor): "Bérénice" number 28 9 2 2003 Bertozzi (Gabriele-Aldo): "Premio Inista de Poesia" 9 3 undated Ocaña (Juan Orozco) (editor): "Inia Kelma" 9 5 undated Ocaña (Juan Ozozco): "I. N. I. Signo" 9 4 undated Prior (Molero): "Manual para Supervivientes" 9 6 undated Proïa (Francois): "Rimbaude L'Avanguardia" 9 7 undated