Free press
Subtitle: underground & alternative publications 1965-1975
By: Jean-François Bizot ; foreword by Barry Miles
Publisher: Universe
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Underground press publications -- History -- 20th century; Underground press publications -- Pictorial works; Subculture -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works; Counterculture -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works
Work titles: Free press, la contre-culture vue par la presse underground.
Description: "This nostalgic tour-de-force celebrates the alternative newspapers that forever influenced culture, politics, and society. Taking the collective name from the wartime "underground press" of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance, the rebellious countercultural publications examined here were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate (later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate), which was founded in 1967 so that member papers could freely share material. This utopian model perfectly suited the times. The work of soon to be famous writers and artists such as Hunter S. Thompson, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ken Kesey, R. Crumb, and Art Spiegelman was soon widely available from coast to coast." "An outgrowth of the global youth movement, the underground press documented everything from politics and art to film and fashion -with a sizeable leavening of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Among the featured publications are The Los Angeles Free Press (persecuted by the Nixon-era FBI for its antiwar views), The East Village Other (the first to adopt a psychedelic layout), Interview (founded by Andy Warhol and the first to feature homoerotic imagery), The Berkeley Barb (famous for one cover showing a young man with a chain around his mind), The San Francisco Oracle (which featured the writing of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti), and Fifth Estate (which coined the phrase "all isms are was-isms")."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index

Originally published in French in 2006 as Free press, la contre-culture vue par la presse underground, by Actuel