Screen stutter : lettrism and the disarticulation of the avant-garde
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In everyday conversation, sonic excesses of voice, such as hums, lisps, slurs, sighs, and stutters, impede communication, burden interlocutors, and diminish one's sense of self-sovereignty. Yet for a group of artists working in Paris throughout the French Fourth Republic (1946--1958), non-semantic vocalizations were sounds of significant avant-garde aesthetic import. In "Screen Stutter: Lettrism and the Disarticulation of the Avant-Garde, " I draw out the form and function of the disarticulate voice in the production and reception of postwar art and cinema. I explore why artists and filmmakers Isidore Isou (1925--2007), Maurice Lemaître (1926--2018), and Gil J. Wolman (1929--1995), collectively working under the label "Lettrism, " utilized the errors, excesses, and aporias of speech as critical, albeit understudied, materials to cut, project, and perform.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Whitworth, Christian Penn |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Levi, Pavle |
| Thesis advisor | Levi, Pavle |
| Thesis advisor | Ma, Jean, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Phelan, Peggy |
| Thesis advisor | Tremblay, Jean-Thomas |
| Degree committee member | Ma, Jean, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Phelan, Peggy |
| Degree committee member | Tremblay, Jean-Thomas |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Christian Penn Whitworth. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tg228sy6611 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Christian Penn Whitworth
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Also listed in
Loading usage metrics...