Der Konsul: Nachwort von Roberto Ohrt

Ralph Rumney

ISBN 10: 3893201491 / ISBN 13: 9783893201495

Published by Edition Tiamat, 2011

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Neu -Ralph Rumney (1934-2002) begann seine Karriere als Künstler in den schlecht beleumundeten Kreisen des linken Seine-Ufers in Paris. In der Bar Moineau traf er in den fünfziger Jahren Guy Debord, den Mann »mit der eleganten Sprache und dem magischen Charme«. Fünfzig Jahre lang bewegte er sich in den Künstlerischen Avantgarden Europas, er war befreundet mit Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, William Bourroughs, Félix Guattari und vielen anderen, über die er Zeugnis ablegt und Geschichten erzählt. Mit Marcel Duchamp spielte er Schach, mit Georges Bataille diskutierte er im Café Flore die Erotik, in London verdiente er seinen Lebensunterhalt mit Poker und in Venedig musste er vor den Nachstellungen seiner Schwiegermutter Peggy Guggenheim flüchten, nachdem seine Frau Pegeen Selbstmord begangen hatte. 144 pp. Deutsch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Der Konsul: Nachwort von Roberto Ohrt
• Publisher: Edition Tiamat
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3893201491
• ISBN 13: 9783893201495
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 20.8W x 12.4H x 1.4D centimeters 20.8 centimeters width by 12.4 centimeters height by 1.4 centimeters depth
• Weight: 180 grams

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Synopsis

Artist Ralph Rumney's (1934-2002) oral history The Consul is an important, if slight, document that makes an engaging addition to our knowledge about the avant-garde's most extreme faction (along with its companion volume Jean-Michel Mension's The Tribe). The Situationist International (SI) certainly needs contributions to its history that lie outside those carved by its dominating leading lights Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Rumney, interviewed at length before (by Alan Woods) in the entertaining The Map Is Not the Territory, was a founding member, and the only British representative, of the SI (Andrew Hussey's flawed but competent biography of Debord, The Game of War, is probably the best place to start for an overview) and has spent a lifetime drinking and drifting, and rejecting the world, in the best psychogeographical fashion. The Consul, beautifully presented with host of photographs of Rumney, his art and his companions, is a languorous, absorbing and affecting ramble through Rumney's life, which, whilst hardly being ground-breaking, gives a further roundness and insight into a most invigorating, radical and challenging group of artists. --George Bowman