File Megazine Reprint. (Lacks Vol. 4 from 6 Vol. set)

Beatrix Ruf, Editor

ISBN 10: 3905829215 / ISBN 13: 9783905829211

Published by JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2008

About this Item

five softcover volumes, lacking one volume (vol. 4) from the set of six. also lacks the slipcase. no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps. tight sewn bindings. ; english text. reproduces issues of toronto-based periodical. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Seller Inventory # 23934

Bibliographic Details

• Title: File Megazine Reprint. (Lacks Vol. 4 from 6 Vol. set)
• Publisher: JRP/Ringier, Zurich
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3905829215
• ISBN 13: 9783905829211
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition Thus.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Multi-Volume Set
• Seller catalogs:
  • The Odd and Off Beat

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Synopsis

“An alternative to the Alternative Press,” legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea’s FILE Megazine--published from 1972 to 1989--is compiled, at long last, in this important five-volume boxed-set edition. General Idea consisted of AA Bronson--now the Executive Director of New York’s Printed Matter--Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz, who both died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1994. The trio cheekily appropriated FILE’s name and logo from LIFE magazine, and it quickly gained a reputation far beyond its Toronto underground roots. It was subversive to the core, pilfering freely from mainstream media and culture, while maintaining close attention to design issues and the use of experimental layouts. Three decades later, this compilation reveals FILE’s influence on both underground and mainstream publications. As critic and artist Peter Gallo has written, FILE “anticipated many queercore and punk zines of the later 70s and 80s…as well as more recent mass-media interventions, such as the widely distributed, anti-globalist Vancouver-based publication Adbusters.”