Cahier pour un paysage à inventer invitation card [1960]

[STRARAM, Patrick]. Cahier pour un paysage à inventer. Montreal, QC: n.p., 1960. 4 p.; 14.3 x 7.4 cm.; black ink on cream stock.

Invitation card for the launch of the first (and only) issue of Cahier pour un paysage a inventer. The event was held at Café Lutece (a then-popular jazz venue) in Montreal on 17 May 1960. The short-lived Situationist-influenced publication was produced by Patrick Straram following his expatriation to Canada. It mixed articles, poems and critical texts by Quebec writers (Gaston Miron, Marie-France O’Leary, Paul-Marie Lapointe, Gilles Hénault, Serge Garant, Marcel Dubé…) and members of the Internationale Situationniste (Asger Jorn, Gilles Ivain, Guy-Ernest Debord…).

For more about the Cahier itself, see this post

[Photograph] Debord, Marc’O, Fillon, Cocteau [1951]

[GROUPE LETTRISTE] [Photograph] Debord, Marc’O, Fillon, Cocteau. n.p.: n.p., n.d. 21 x 15 cm.; B&W photograph on Fujifilm film stock.

Countertype (duplicate) of an original August 1951 photograph showing Marc O’ (Marc Gilbert Guillaumin), Guy Debord, and Jacques Fillon with Jean Cocteau at the artist’s house in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Cocteau made a brief apperance in Isou’s film Traité de Bave et d’Éternité (Venom and Eternity). He supported the avant-garde film and convinced the jury of the Cannes Festival to award it a special “avant-garde prize” created for that very purpose. A young Guy Debord had only joined the Lettrist group 4 months prior, in April 1951, when its members had traveled down to Cannes. The rest, as they say, is History.

Photograph reproduced in Guy Debord, Oeuvres (Paris: Gallimard, 2006), pp. 43.