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Under the Radar: Underground Zines and Self-Publications 1965-1975

Under the Radar: Underground Zines and Self-Publications 1965-1975

Bandel, Jan-Frederik
Prill, Tania
Gilbert, Annette

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ISBN10: 3959051042
ISBN13: 9783959051040
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Feb 2 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 4.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 10.00 Depth: 13.10
Language: English
The mid-1960s witnessed a boom in underground and selfpublished works. Hectographs, mimeographs, and offset printing not only allowed for the production of small, lowcost print runs but also promote a unique aesthetic: using wild mock-ups, messianic amateurs combined typescript aesthetics, handwriting, scribbled drawings, assemblages of collaged visuals, porn photos, snapshots, and comic strips. The typography consciously frees itself, in parallel to a liberalization of linguistic and visual forms of expression in the name of a new sensibility. This book (which appears in conjunction with an exhibition at the Weserburg in Bremen) is the first to present the underground and self-published works that came out of West Germany in such depth, while also showing the internationalcontext in which they emerged: not as an anecdotal history but as an attempt to tap into the aesthetic cosmos of a Do-It-Yourself rebellion, one that also challenges us to take a new look at the current boom in independent publishing, the risograph aesthetic, and so on.

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