Beau Geste Press: a liminal communitas across the new avant-garde
In this article I will examine how a few Latin American avant-garde artists and poets in exile became part of Fluxus, an international constellation of artists whose ideas revitalised the concept of the avant-garde after the war. This constellation became an active collaboration through the making...
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2018-12-01
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In this article I will examine how a few Latin American avant-garde artists and poets in exile became part of Fluxus, an international constellation of artists whose ideas revitalised the concept of the avant-garde after the war. This constellation became an active collaboration through the makings of the Beau Geste Press, founded in Devon (UK) in 1971 and active until 1976. The press, co-founded by Felipe Ehrenberg, Martha Hellion and David Mayor, not only published and disseminated the work of Cecilia Vicuña, Ulises Carrión, Claudio Bertoni, and Ehrenberg himself, but also operated as “a community of duplicators, printers and craftsmen” that replaced the concept of individual creation with a practice of communal production. I will refer to Victor Turner’s concept of liminality to contend that the Beau Geste Press, which represented the beginning and end of this communitas, developed in a space that was liminal on different levels: at the level of the subjective experience of exile; of artistic production, which can be inferred from their emphasis on procedural techniques over finished artistic products; and at the level of language, because they are Spanish-speaking authors in England, who turn that potential problem into hybrid forms.
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| spelling | doaj-art-fbed72468b0f43bfa33ed05f3e10a9ff2024-11-14T18:32:19ZengUniversitat de ValènciaKamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural2340-18692018-12-011210.7203/KAM.12.12174Beau Geste Press: a liminal communitas across the new avant-gardeJèssica Pujol Duran0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-2162<p>Universidad de Santiago de Chile</p><p>Proyecto Fondecyt Nº3170560</p> In this article I will examine how a few Latin American avant-garde artists and poets in exile became part of Fluxus, an international constellation of artists whose ideas revitalised the concept of the avant-garde after the war. This constellation became an active collaboration through the makings of the Beau Geste Press, founded in Devon (UK) in 1971 and active until 1976. The press, co-founded by Felipe Ehrenberg, Martha Hellion and David Mayor, not only published and disseminated the work of Cecilia Vicuña, Ulises Carrión, Claudio Bertoni, and Ehrenberg himself, but also operated as “a community of duplicators, printers and craftsmen” that replaced the concept of individual creation with a practice of communal production. I will refer to Victor Turner’s concept of liminality to contend that the Beau Geste Press, which represented the beginning and end of this communitas, developed in a space that was liminal on different levels: at the level of the subjective experience of exile; of artistic production, which can be inferred from their emphasis on procedural techniques over finished artistic products; and at the level of language, because they are Spanish-speaking authors in England, who turn that potential problem into hybrid forms. https://turia.uv.es/index.php/kamchatka/article/view/12174Liminalitycreación colectivanew-avant-gardeFluxusindependent pressesexile |
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| title | Beau Geste Press: a liminal communitas across the new avant-garde |
| title_full | Beau Geste Press: a liminal communitas across the new avant-garde |
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| title_short | Beau Geste Press: a liminal communitas across the new avant-garde |
| title_sort | beau geste press a liminal communitas across the new avant garde |
| topic | Liminality creación colectiva new-avant-garde Fluxus independent presses exile |
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