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The Ultra-Lettrist art movement was developed by Jean-Louis Brau, Gil J. Wolman , and François Dufrêne in the 1950s when they split from Isidore Isou 's Lettrism movement.

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2-548: Dufrêne created a phonetic poetry movement which breaks the structures of language that he called Ultra-Lettrist. The Ultra-Lettrist movement grew into an art form as it was developed by Dufrêne, Brau and Wolman. The Ultra-Lettrists explored the vocal possibilities of concrete music : a form of artistic expression based on spontaneity directly recorded onto tape by exploiting the noise music qualities of sound, meaning, and nonsense . Visual conceptual artists Raymond Hains , Jacques Villeglé and Mimmo Rotella also participated in

4-775: The Ultra-Lettrist movement. The Ultra-Lettrists issued a periodical called grammeS: Review of the Ultra-Lettriste Group , which ran for seven issues between 1957 and 1961. They used this journal to publish their hypergraphics , exchanges and discussions with the Lettrists' Poésie Nouvelle and with the Situationist International members. Some Ultra-Lettrists went on to form and join the Nouveau réalisme movement, while others joined

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