Notes
German version.
Design: Prill Vieceli Cremers, in collaboration with students of the HfK Bremen
Publisher Note
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.
Unter dem Radar
— Underground- und Selbstpublikationen 1965–1975
by Jan-Frederik Bandel, Annette Gilbert, Tania Prill
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Release Place | Leipzig, Germany |
Edition | 1st edition |
Release Date | 2017 |
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ISBN-13:
9783959050326
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Subform | Book On Artists’ Books, Exhibition Catalogue, Reference Book |
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Dimensions | 24.5 × 33.5 cm |
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Pages | 368 |