'Icteric' can be seen as an avant-garde group who knew 'how to use' earlier avant-gardes, and then, in true avant-garde fashion, actively participate in its own dissolution.

1. Icteric, No 1, 1966 2. Icteric collective : Why not indeed toys incense and death. Newcastle 1967 3. Icteric no 2, 1967. 4. Catalogue cover. 5. Exhibition view, Moderna Museet, Stockhom, 1969. 6. Stuart Wise, Photomontage after suggestion by Maurice Henry for replacing the Sacre Coeur, 1968.

Icteric and Poetry must be made by all / Transform the World: A note on a lost and suppressed avant-garde and exhibition. 

Ron Hunt

'Icteric' was the name adopted by a radical arts group and magazine operating in Newcastle around 1967. 'Icteric' can be seen as an avant-garde group who knew 'how to use' earlier avant-gardes, and then, in true avant-garde fashion, actively participate in its own dissolution. We are dealing with a confluence of - abandonment, suicide and suppression. One outgrowth of ‘Icteric’ (meaning both jaundiced and a cure for jaundice) was the exhibition ‘Poetry must be made by all / Transform the World ‘ which I curated for the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1969.