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[[File:GrammeS-covers.jpg|thumb|360px|3 covers of the ''grammeS: Review of the Ultra-Lettriste Group'']]

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. 

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. <ref>Andrew Hussey, ''The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou'', Reaktion Books, p. 215</ref> 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 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 the [[Situationist International]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sa_hymCZQQIC&dq=Ultra+Lettrist+group&pg=PA112 Craig J. Saper (2001) ''Networked art''] pp 112 U of Minnesota Press {{ISBN|0-8166-3707-5}} Retrieved 2010, May 17</ref>

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