Martha Hellion

	Martha Hellion Martha Hellion is a visual artist, radical publisher, and freelance curator. Her formal studies were in Architecture and Museum Design; in later years she continued to specialize in experimental art in England and the Netherlands. From then on her praxis has been focused on editions of artists' books and other multidisciplinary projects. She is co-founder of the Beau Geste Press in England, a Fluxus-associated enterprise that was part of the transnational 1970s avant-gardes. Hellion moved from Mexico to England with fellow artist (and then-husband) Felipe Ehrenberg in the wake of the military's execution of student demonstrators in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, in 1968. With artist and art historian David Mayor, cartoonist Chris Welch, and Madeleine Gallard, they eventually founded the Beau Geste Press on a farm in Devon. The collective published eight issues of ''Schmuck'' between 1972 and 1978 in editions of around 550. They also published numerous artists' books by Ehrenberg, Mayor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Mexico City, Mexico Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes it one of the most productive urban areas in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Beau Geste Press Beau Geste Press was an independent publisher run by Felipe Ehrenberg, Martha Hellion and David Mayor. It was active from 1970 until 1976 at Langford Court South in Cullompton, Devon, where Hellion and Ehrenberg lived. History Art historian David Mayor eventually joined the couple at Longford, when he became public-relations manager for the press. British cartoonist Chris Welch and his partner Madeleine Gallard, founding members of the press, lived at Longford in 1970 and 1971. Other artists involved included Terry Wright, Pat Wright, and Takako Saito. Beau Geste Press published art works, concept booklets, pamphlets, magazines, flyers and postcards. The press aimed to function outside of the commercial art market, to critique the power of art institutions and to create projects in opposition to the consumerist and political mainstream. Their 1973-74 catalogue declared "Beau Geste Press is not a business. It's a way of life. We exist because you exist. Our activities serve as a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus is known for experimental contributions to different artistic media and disciplines and for generating new art forms. These art forms include intermedia, a term coined by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins; conceptual art, first developed by Henry Flynt, an artist contentiously associated with Fluxus; and video art, first pioneered by Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell. Dutch gallerist and art critic describes Fluxus as "the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties".. 1979. ''Fluxus, the Most Radical and Experimental Art Movement of the Sixties'' Amsterdam: Editions Galerie A. They produced performance "events", which included enactments of scores, "Neo-Dada" noise music, and time-based works, as well as concrete poetry, visual art, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]