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BEAU GESTE PRESS. 2017.

paul robertson — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 11:56:30 +0000

Bordeaux: Musee d'art contemporain Bordeaux, 2017 21 x 15cm, 36pp (self cover). Monograph and exhibition catalogue displaying works and books issued by the Beau Geste Press. Printed dos a dos this has sections on various interests of Mayer and others at the press with b/w illustrations from publications and photographs of participants and texts in French. Useful small reference. Couple of small marks on wrappers else VG+.

AN INTERNATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF PLANS AND OCCURRENCES. 1973.

paul robertson — Sat, 30 May 2020 11:47:23 +0000

Richmond: Anderson Gallery, 1973
24 x 15.4cm, single sheet folded 16 times – opens to 48 x 61.5cm. A broadside issued on the occasion of the title exhibition curated by Davi Det Hompson’s as a mail art exhibition but many works can clearly be seen as visual and concrete poetry.
Reproduced in b/w are mail art works by Jim Riddle, Takahashi Shohachiro, Shimizu Toshihiko, Entre Toto, Wolf Vostell, John Baldessari, Felipe Ehrenberg, Jochen Gerz, Klaus Groh, Jiri Valoch and others and many famous artists are mentioned. A very scarce catalogue

TEUTONIC SCHMUCK. 1975.

paul robertson — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:54:43 +0000

Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1975 21 x 29cm, unpaginated, original printed wrappers. Edited by Ehrenberg & Mayor. Single number (the seventh in the series) of the British Fluxus related assemblage produced by the co-operative. Includes contributions by Dick Higgins, Michael Gibbs, Felipe Ehrenberg, Robin Crozier, Jiri Valoch, Takako Saito, Ian Breakwell, Paul Burwell, and others includes booklet: The Intermediary: The first lecture”. Very good example. Scarce.

FRENCH SCHMUCK. 1975.

paul robertson — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:52:51 +0000

Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1975 21 x 29cm, unpaginated, original printed wrappers. Edited by Ehrenberg & Mayor. Single number (the sixth in the series) of the British Fluxus related assemblage produced by the co-operative. Includes contributions by by Ben Vautier, R. Filliou, C. Dotremont, Henri Chopin, Mauricce Lemaitre, Jean Le Gac, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, M. Alocco. With additional booklet: Ben Vautier’s "Me Ben I Sign”. Very good example. Scarce.

PUBLICITY LEAFLET FOR BEAU GESTE PRESS & MIMEOBOOKS. 1972.

paul robertson — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:03:40 +0000

Devon: Beau Geste Press, n.d., (1972)

30 x 21cm, 2pp – black on yellow with announcements relating to current and future publications from the Press. Mentions Caroloee Schneemann's Part of a Body house, Felipe Ehrenberg's Cantata Dominical, Things by Yael, the Manifesto Pamphlet and Opal L. Nation's Banners Death as well as Ken Friedman's The Aesthetics, the Fluxshoe Catalogue and Icelandic, Czech and Hungarian Schmucks. VG.