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[St. AubyStjaubyEmmyEmilyGrantSt. AubskyT. Taub] (b Fót, Aug 17, 1944). Hungarian neo-avant-garde artist, theoretician, poet, and ‘happener’ (performance artist). Along with Miklós Erdély and Gábor Altorjay, Szentjóby was one of the leading figures of the Hungarian neo-avant-garde during the 1960s until his emigration to Switzerland in 1975. He started as a musician, poet, and photographer. He gave up his label as anartist early and worked onward as a ‘non-art artist’. The concept of non-art artist was built around the statement that ‘art is what is forbidden’. In socialist Hungary art and artists were controlled by the state authorities. They decided what kind of art was permitted to be exhibited or taught and what kind was not. Szentjóby’s decision to work outside the sanctioned art world meant that within the context of socialist Hungary he was not producing art;hence he called himself a non-art artist. In 1966 he wrote the first pop-art inspired poems in Hungarian and realised in the same year the first ...