The first standalone title on the BFTK imprint, ‘As Celebration, As Critique, As Play’ pulls together selected writings by Ron Hunt across his varied career as a writer, librarian, curator, critic and self described ‘lapsed anarchist’. Structured as a ‘biographic bibliography’ supplemented with annotations and contextual notes, ‘As Celebration, As Critique, As Play’ combines commissioned writing and previously unpublished texts that range from exhibition catalogue essays and détourned Q&As, to A–Z indexes and cherry-picked readers. Writings reproduced in full include:

• Francis Picabia: Introduction (1964)
• Yves Klein: A Mythopoeic of the Plurisignative (1967)
• The Arts in Our Time (1968)
• We Are Revealing New Pages of Art in Anarchy’s New Dawns (1968)
• Interview with Brigitte Bardot (1969) (preview)
• Poetry must be made by all! / Transform the world! (1969)
• An Interview with Pontus Hultén, Stockholm 1981 (1971)
• For Factography! (1976)
• Andreas Gursky (1999)
• Kalf: A Late Perspective (2000)
• Dreams of / Fears of …… Flying (2009)
• Fourier / Breton / Cherries (2017)
• Hélène Cixous or Waiting for Tears (2018)
• Some Books of Barbara Bloom (2019)
• A Very Brief Dictionary in the Vicinity of Situationism (2019)
• ‘Recovery’ / Is Recovery Possible (2020)

with photographs by Tom McCaughan

typeset in Janson Max Neue by Dinamo & Sam de Groot