Beau Geste Press.
Many color illus. 470 pp. Large & thick 4to, orig. printed dust-jacket, pictorial wrappers. Bordeaux: CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, 2020.
An essential reference work on one of the most intrepid artist-run presses of the 1970s. Established by Felipe Ehrenberg, Martha Hellion, and David Mayor in 1971, the Beau Geste Press published around 75 books, multiples, and magazines in a farmhouse in Devon, UK. Their mission was to print materials in close collaboration with artists. This included figures like Ulises Carrión, Helen Chadwick, Ken Friedman, Klaus Groh, Raúl Marroquin, Opal L. Nations, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Endre Tot, Ben Vautier, Hideki Yoshida, etc. The book has numerous personal accounts from the co-founders, their collaborators, and scholars. There is also an authoritative and thoroughly illustrated bibliography of the press’s output until its closing in 1976.
As new. WorldCat records only three copies in the United States.
Price: $95.00
Item ID: 7650
