archives Jean-Dominique CARRE Contemporary Art
avant-gardes of the sixties and seventies
10 rue de la grande chaumière f -75006 paris france
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THE RAT BASTARD PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
THE RAT BASTARD PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION, an underground arts association, was founded by Bruce Conner in 1959 in San Francisco, three years after the Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its public lecture, two years after the Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". The San Francisco "Bay Area" became the place where a new generation of writers, painters and musicians rebelled against the "American academicians", the place where the Beat Generation was born. The society marginalized violently the new culture and its upholders. In this hostile context, in which the underground movement were rejected and marginalized, treated like rats, Bruce Conner forged the name of Rat Bastard Protective Association, coined after the name of the "Scavengers Protective Society", the San Francisco garbage collectors company and from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB, like the Rat Bastard's RBP). The members of this informal group were, besides Bruce Conner, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Wallace Berman, Jess Collins, George Herms, Michael McClure, LG Williams
THE RAT BASTARD PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
Untitled (Pasted paper around Michael Mc.Clure)
Collage
Paper, gouache, ink.
Contemporary frame.
Picture: 31.5 x 24.3 cm
Framed: 44.3 x 36.5 cm
Signed and dated 1968 in the lower right corner.
Paper label pasted on the back with typed text:
"Pasted paper around Michael Mc.Clure
Rat bastard protective association
(Mc.Clure, J. Defeo, J. Brown, W. Berman)
California 1968
Banfield Edition
2707 Jenner St
Baltimore MD 21209"
Excellent condition.
signature
vlabel
THE RAT BASTARD PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
Untitled (Pasted paper around Michael Mc.Clure)
Collage
Paper, gouache, ink.
Contemporary frame.
Framed: 63.7 x 54 cm
Picture: 43 x 33 cm
Signed and dated 1968, center bottom.
Paper label pasted on the back with typed text:
"Pasted paper around Michael Mc.Clure
Rat bastard protective association
(Mc.Clure, J. Defeo, J. Brown, W. Berman)
California 1968
Banfield Edition
2707 Jenner St
Baltimore MD 21209"
Excellent condition.
signature
label
We are interested in purchasing artist books, multiples, prints and unique works of art by the artists of this group.
Please contact us.
Nous sommes intéressés par l'achat de livres d'artiste, estampes, multiples et oeuvres uniques des artistes de ce groupe.
Merci de nous contacter.
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Jean-Dominique CARRE Post-War and Contemporary Art
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Jean-Dominique Carre
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10 rue de la grande chaumière
f -75006 paris france
archives.carre (at) wanadoo.fr
http://archives.carre.pagesperso-orange.fr
