L'Optique Moderne
Catalogue
- Year
- 1963
- Medium
- Offset book
- Dimensions
- page (each): 7 7/8 x 5 5/16" (20 x 13.5 cm); overall (closed): 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 1/4" (20 x 14 x 0.7 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- François Dufrêne
Artist
François Dufrêne was a French artist and founding member of the Lettrist movement, active in Paris from the 1950s onward. He worked primarily with sound poetry, audio collage, and experimental phonetic composition, treating the human voice as a sculptural and sonic material. His practice rejected conventional linguistic meaning in favor of raw vocalization and tape-based assemblage, positioning him at the intersection of visual art, music, and literature during the postwar avant-garde.
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Untitled from The New Realists (Les Nouveaux réalistes)
1973 · Photolithograph
Revue OU Cinquième Saison, no. 33
1968 · Periodical with 7-inch vinyl record
Revue OU Cinquième Saison, no. 32
1967 · Three printed sheets, stapled
Revue OU Cinquième Saison, no. 25
1965 · Periodical
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- François Dufrêne
- Year
- 1963
- Medium
- Offset book
- Dimensions
- page (each): 7 7/8 x 5 5/16" (20 x 13.5 cm); overall (closed): 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 1/4" (20 x 14 x 0.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1963-M090720
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified