{"product_id":"images-a-lire-roman-photos-hypergraphique-1968","title":"Images a lire: roman - photos hypergraphique (1968)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePainter, writer, architect, photographer, poet, and critic Alain Satié joined the Lettrist movement in 1964. This publication embodies the principles of hypergraphy that the movement crystallized in the early 1960s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConceived at the intersection with the Duchampian tradition of appropriation and détournement, \u003cem\u003eImage à Lire \u003c\/em\u003epushes the boundaries of conventional literature by replacing textual language with images. A profusion of printed-media fragments drawn from disparate sources is arranged across 14 carefully orchestrated plates, following the logic of photographic montage and collage. The resulting narrative is at once livresque and cinematic, unfolding through a mock cast of personalities introduced at the outset and recurring intermittently throughout the book, among them Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Armstrong, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marlon Brando, Catherine Deneuve, James Dean, Isidore Isou, Mick Jagger, Roland Sabatier, and Satié himself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe publication opens with a preface by Roland Sabatier, who articulates the logic behind Satié’s hypergraphic photo-novel:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The plates that follow were conceived on the basis of the theories of hypergraphic writing, which have allowed their author, since 1963, to give the world of the plastic arts a remarkable facet of this expression, immediately identifiable with him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[…] His hermetic rhythms, his varied and elaborate mechanics, his anecdotal – often erotic – themes, all work together to situate the signs that he diverts from their utilitarian purpose, laying them onto his support in a dense and brutal manner, giving thereby a systematic quality that only attachment to, and understanding of, a creative structure can justify.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA remarkable example of Lettrism’s fragmentary and discrepant narrative aesthetic. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54759355351379,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4530.png?v=1787907348","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/images-a-lire-roman-photos-hypergraphique-1968","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}