Lettrism
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Lettrism is a mid-20th-century French avant-garde movement that experimented radically with letters, sounds, and symbols to reinvent poetry, visual art, and later film and theory.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lettrism canonical | 7 |
| Lettrist poetry | 1 |
| concrete poetry movement | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5977012 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lettrism Context triple: [European avant-garde, includesMovement, Lettrism]
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Oulipo
Oulipo is a French literary group founded in 1960 that explores and creates literature using constrained writing techniques and mathematical structures.
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Fluxus
Fluxus was an avant-garde art movement of the 1960s that blended visual art, performance, and everyday actions into playful, often anti-commercial works challenging traditional definitions of art.
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Garafía
Garafía is a rural municipality on the island of La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its rugged coastline, traditional agriculture, and dark-sky stargazing conditions.
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D.
Dada
Dada was an early 20th-century avant-garde art and literary movement that rejected traditional aesthetics and logic through absurdity, chance, and anti-bourgeois protest.
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E.
CoBrA
CoBrA was an avant-garde European art movement (1948–1951) known for its spontaneous, expressive, and often abstract painting style influenced by folk art, children’s drawings, and primitivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lettrism Target entity description: Lettrism is a mid-20th-century French avant-garde movement that experimented radically with letters, sounds, and symbols to reinvent poetry, visual art, and later film and theory.
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A.
Oulipo
Oulipo is a French literary group founded in 1960 that explores and creates literature using constrained writing techniques and mathematical structures.
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B.
Fluxus
Fluxus was an avant-garde art movement of the 1960s that blended visual art, performance, and everyday actions into playful, often anti-commercial works challenging traditional definitions of art.
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C.
Garafía
Garafía is a rural municipality on the island of La Palma in Spain’s Canary Islands, known for its rugged coastline, traditional agriculture, and dark-sky stargazing conditions.
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D.
Dada
Dada was an early 20th-century avant-garde art and literary movement that rejected traditional aesthetics and logic through absurdity, chance, and anti-bourgeois protest.
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E.
CoBrA
CoBrA was an avant-garde European art movement (1948–1951) known for its spontaneous, expressive, and often abstract painting style influenced by folk art, children’s drawings, and primitivism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art movement
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literary movement ⓘ |
| aim |
creation of new aesthetic theory
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reinvention of film ⓘ reinvention of poetry ⓘ reinvention of visual art ⓘ |
| basedOn |
deconstruction of language
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graphic experimentation ⓘ phonetic experimentation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| field |
aesthetics
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cinema ⓘ philosophy ⓘ poetry ⓘ visual art ⓘ |
| founder | Isidore Isou ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
focus on materiality of language
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integration of text and image ⓘ intermedial practice ⓘ performance orientation ⓘ radical experimentation with language ⓘ rejection of traditional syntax ⓘ theoretical rigor ⓘ use of invented signs ⓘ use of letters as autonomous artistic units ⓘ |
| hasPart |
experimental film
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sound poetry ⓘ theoretical writings ⓘ visual poetry ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
François Dufrêne
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Gabriel Pomerand ⓘ Gil J Wolman ⓘ Maurice Lemaître ⓘ Roland Sabatier ⓘ |
| inception |
1940s
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1945 ⓘ |
| influenced |
Situationist International
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conceptual art ⓘ concrete poetry ⓘ sound poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dada
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Surrealism ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| locationOfFormation | Paris ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
letters
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sounds ⓘ symbols ⓘ |
| movement | French avant-garde ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique
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Isou ou la mécanique des femmes ⓘ Traité de bave et d'éternité ⓘ |
| period | mid-20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lettrism Description of subject: Lettrism is a mid-20th-century French avant-garde movement that experimented radically with letters, sounds, and symbols to reinvent poetry, visual art, and later film and theory.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lettrism
linked to: Lettrism