Counter Print: The Alternative Art Press in Britain After 1970 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526183057)

The history of contemporary art is also a history of its newsletters, manifestos, magazines, pamphlets, and journals. Those periodical publications do not simply communicate or record ideas but have worked in exciting ways to shape art's practices, histories and communities. As a new generation of artists, activists and scholars seek to uncover the histories of alternative publishing and artistic networks, this book gathers original archival discoveries while offering methodologies for studying and thinking with those artefacts. As the first essay collection to focus on the periodical art press and the ways we study it, Counter print offers readers an alternative route into the past fifty years of contemporary art, one that is defiantly collaborative, border crossing and disruptive.

Author: Victoria Horne
ISBN-10: 1526183056
ISBN-13: 9781526183057
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover