INTERNATIONALE LETTRISTE. La plate-forme d’Alba. n.p. [Paris]: n.p. [Internationale Lettriste], n.d. [1956]. Single-sided leaflet; 21 x 31 cm; black ink on cream stock.

Important leaflet regarding the gathering of Free Artists at Alba, which would ultimately lead to the Cosio di Arroscia conference and the foundation of the Situationist International in 1957. The concept of unitary urbanism plays a prominent role in the announcement (“Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. … A unitary urbanism—the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies—must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate.”) The text was later published (in a slightly revised version) in Potlatch 27 (November 1956). Translated into English here: http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/alba.htm

We locate a single OCLC copy at Yale.