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Synopsis
Taking its collective name from the wartime "underground press" of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance, the publications examined here were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate (later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate), founded in 1967 so that member papers could freely share and reprint material. This utopian model resulted in an explosion of alternative publications worldwide as every small start-up had access to the work of soon-to-be famous writers, journalists, artists, and graphic designers. Among the notable figures whose work has appeared in these pages are Hunter S. Thompson, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ken Kesey, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman—to name only a few. The underground press documented everything from politics and art to film and fashion. Among the publications featured here are The Los Angeles Free Press (persecuted by the Nixon-era FBI for its antiwar views), The East Village Other (the first to adopt a psychedelic layout), Interview (founded by Andy Warhol and the first to feature homoerotic imagery), The Chicago Seed, Oracle, and The Berkeley Barb (famous for one cover showing a young man with a chain around his mind). The ideas unleashed in these now vintage publications continue to reverberate through society and influence public discourse and graphic design in the form of today's 'zines and online blogs.
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About the Author
Jean-François Bizot founded the French underground magazine Actuel in 1970. Barry Miles was a central figure of '60 counterculture and is the author of many books on the subject.
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"The golden age of alternative culture vividly comes to life in Free Press...Edited by French journalist Jean-Francois Bizot, this oversize tome compiles 255 pages of psychedelic graphics, down-and-dirty reportage, and newsprint images from a decade that encompassed the summer of love, Stonewall, and Watergate." -- Dec06 AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN
"High energy and immediacy characterize the era's graphic design: text was often handwritten and laid out sideways, and trippy cartoons in saturated colors captured a drug-addled generation." -- Mar07 BOLDTYPE/ARTKRUSH
"A cornucopia of extravagant cartoonery and graphic design" -- 12/10/06 SEATTLE TIMES
"Jean-Francois Bizot's lavish volume, which offers beautiful reproductions of covers and inside pages from some of that era's best underground publications..." -- Nov06 NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"dense with creative sources and ideal for graphic designers and printmakers in search of their roots." -- Nov06 JUXTAPOZ
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- PublisherUniverse
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0789314967
- ISBN 13 9780789314963
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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