Maurice Lemaître born April 23rd 1926 in Paris is an artist writer and French poet He is known to be one of the main figures of lettrisme a movement started in the 1950s Lemaître was educated at the School of Arts and Crafts and Public Works After taking part in the Liberation of Paris he began his philosophy degree at the Sorbonne In 1948 he began his career as a journalist and wrote for the newspaper of the libertarian movement A year later he met Isidore Isou and immediately became interested in his political and avantgarde thoughts In 1950 Lemaître becomes very invested in the Lettrist group and created in the same year the Youth Front a political journal while simultaneously creating a literary and pictorial magazine entitled Ur which remains as The Minotaur of lettrism Since his literary creations Lemaître has continued to develop various fields within the Lettrist movement poetry theater dance novel painting photography film economy psychopathology and psychotherapy Despite his dedication to the movement since 2000 Lemaître distanced himself from the movement and is now relatively isolated from the main group
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