Chopin, Henri (editor) as well as Burroughs, Cahn, Golyscheff, Janco und Hausmann, and other authors and artists.

[FLUXUS – LETTRISM – NEO-DADA – POÉSIE SONORE] Revue OU. No. 38/39 (of 45).

Paris: self-published, 1971. Quarto (27 × 26 cm). Original printed folder; four graphically designed single leaves with texts and designs by Marcelle Cahn, Richard Orton, Marcel Mariën, and Raoul Hausmann, among others, as well as five folded posters with texts and images inter alia by William S. Burroughs, Jefim Golyscheff, and Marcel Janco, mainly typographically designed and manufactured using printmaking techniques; and one vinyl record with recordings by Henri Chopin, Bengt Emil Johnson, Sten Hanson, and Jacques Bekaert. Folder with signs of use; else good or better. Item #54627

Single issue of the rare avant-garde journal, which Henri Chopin edited, published, and partly produced in his own home. Influenced by the Dadaists, Chopin, unlike the Lettrists, was not only interested in pictorial poetry, but above all in tonal poetry. Lettrism did not go far enough for him in terms of the dissolution of linguistic conventions and the use of new media. In 1958, he took over the editorship of the conventional poetry magazine “Cinquième Saison”, in which he published early reflections on phonetic poetry. The last issue under this title contained a record and, among other things, the poet René Ghil's prophecy: “In 50 years, the poet will be operating phonetic machines.” Number 20/21 was then published under the new title “OU”. This underlined the radical change in the journal, which from then on resembled “multimedia compendia” or “poetic wonder bags” (Marc Matter) filled with loose leaves, screen prints, posters, fanfolds, relief images, typographic collages, sometimes even three-dimensional objects and regularly a record. In this way, Dadaism, Futurism, Ultra-Lettrism, Fluxus, Concrete Poetry, etc. were mixed together. Chopin consistently self-published the elaborate journal for ten years. He and his wife worked endlessly at home to put together the individual issues and sent them out all over the world. (Cf. Marc Matter, Revue OU Disque, in: Fabrikzeitung, no. 298, 2014.)

One of 475 numbered copies; besides these, 25 copies were published in three different deluxe versions.

Cf. Archiv Sohm 256.

Price: €800.00

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