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Power to the People
Geoff Kaplan
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Description for Power to the People
Hardcover. Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. This title pays homage in its design to the radical press. Num Pages: 240 pages, 700 colour plates. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AKC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 262 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1810.
Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. Thanks to advances in cheap offset printing, groups involved in antiwar, civil rights, and other social liberation issues began to spread their messages through provocatively designed newspapers and broadsheets. This vibrant new media was essential to the counter-culture revolution as a whole and helped proliferate ideas. "Power to the People" presents seven hundred full-color ... Read more
Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. Thanks to advances in cheap offset printing, groups involved in antiwar, civil rights, and other social liberation issues began to spread their messages through provocatively designed newspapers and broadsheets. This vibrant new media was essential to the counter-culture revolution as a whole and helped proliferate ideas. "Power to the People" presents seven hundred full-color ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226424354
SKU
V9780226424354
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About Geoff Kaplan
Geoff Kaplan has produced projects for a range of academic and cultural institutions, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and MoMA. He lives in San Francisco and teaches in the Graduate Program of Design at the California College of Art.
Reviews for Power to the People
"Before there was the Internet and desktop publishing, there was the under-ground press-a rich, irreverent source of information, opinion, and outrageousness that is all too difficult to access today. With Power to the People, Geoff Kaplan has brought together a rowdy and stimulating collection of design from the 1960s and '70s that will be an inspiration and an indispensable resource ... Read more