This poster-size letterpress print reproduces one of the rebus-like pages of a seminal work of French Lettrism, Saint Ghetto of the Loans (1950) by Gabriel Pomerand, a co-founder of this group of avant-garde writers, visual artists, filmmakers, and cabaret performers celebrated in postwar, Left Bank Paris. Saint Ghetto of the Loans is an early example of the Lettrist’s influential engagement with verbo-visual expression, later labeled “metagraphics.”

Edition of 30. 14.25″ x 20″. Letterpress.

UDP’s edition of Saint Ghetto of the Loans (translated by M. Kasper and Bhamati Viswanathan) was originally published in 2006 as the first book in the Lost Literature series; a revised and expanded second edition will be published in 2022. More info on the book here.