Isidore Isou



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Isidore Goldstein/ Isou (Romania, 1925)
1942: writes the manifesto of Lettrisme in Romania
I945: moves to Paris
1946: founds Lettrisme with Gabriel Pomerand
1947: publishes "Introduction … une nouvelle po‚sie et … une nouvelle musique / Introduction to a New Poetry and to a New Music" and "L'Agr‚gation d'un nom et d'un messie / The Aggregation of a Name and a Messiah"
1947: composes "Symphonie Numero 1 - La Guerre/ Symphony No 1 - War"
1949: publishes "Isou ou la m‚canique des femmes / Isou or the Mechanics of Women" and is arrested for pornography
1950: publishes the metagraphic novel "Les Journaux des Dieux / Diaries of the Gods"
1951: shows the first Lettrist film, "Le trait‚ de bave et d'‚ternit‚ / Treatise on Drool and Eternity"
1952: shows his first painting, "Les Nombres / The Numbers" and publishes "Amos ou Introduction a la Metagraphologie", a series of 9 hypergraphic photographs
1953: exhibits his art at the Gallery Palmes and publishes "Fondements pour la transformation int‚grale du th‚ƒtre / Foundations for the Total Transformation of the Theatre"
1956: creates Infinitesimal Art
1957: publishes "L'‚rotologie math‚matique et infinit‚simale / Mathematical and Infinitesimal Erotology"
1958: writes the poem "Sonnet Infiniteismal 3" (1958)
1960: publishes "L'art infinit‚simal et l'art supertemporel / Infinitesimal and Supertemporal Art" and the hypergraphic novel "Initiation a la Haute Volupte"
1961: paints the series titled "Reseaux / Networks"
1962: exhibits 200 paintings at the Gallery Nahmer
1964: publishes "Douze hypergraphies / Twelve Hypergraphic Works"
1968: locked in a psychiatric institution
1972: Pomerand commits suicide
1974: publishes "De l'Impressionnisme au Lettrisme / From Impressionism to Lettrism"
1941: begins work on the treatise "La Creatique /Creatics"
1976: completes the nine-volume treatise "La Creatique /Creatics"
1980: publishes "Fondements d'une nouvelle physique / Foundation of a New Physics" and "Fondements d'une nouvelle chimie / Foundation of a New Chemistry"
1984: publishes "Jonas ou Le Corps a la Recherche de son Ame/ Jonas or the Body in Search of its Soul"
1987: exhibits "La Meca-esthetique / The Meca-Esthetics" at the Galerie de Paris
2006: composes "Symphonie Numero 5"
2007: dies
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