Description: This is the 2nd book of a 6 book series and includes the "glamour" and "punk" issues which are the most sought after. Interviews with the most important punk/no wave/artists of the time. Among artists’ magazines and periodicals, “FILE Megazine” occupies a very unique position: between 1972 and 1989, the celebrated Canadian artists’ collaborative General Idea (active 1969–1994) published 26 issues of this sophisticated, though self-published, magazine, which had a distribution extending far beyond its Toronto underground origins. Its name and logo adapted those of the famous “LIFE”—whose heyday was in the 1950s and early 1960s—demonstrating an already very Pop strategy of appropriation. As it was retrospectively put by AA Bronson, one of the member of the collective, the magazine’s purpose has been the search of “an alternative to the Alternative Press,” a subversive concept of infiltration within mainstream media and culture. Thus the early issues’ manifestos, lists of addresses, and letters from friends, were rapidly replaced by General Idea’s scripts and projects as well as cultural issues (as in the famous “Glamour” or “Punk” issues), while never loosing a cutting-edge attention to emerging practices on the art scene and experimental layouts.
Price: 175 USD
Location: Cypress, Texas
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Publication Month: August
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Name: New
Genre: Alternative
Topic: Art, Music, 1970s, Noir, Photography, Punk Rock
