Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974...

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Geoff Kaplan

Power to the People

The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974

Geoff Kaplan

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English

University of Chicago Press
15 May 2013

Graphic design; Media studies

Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

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 counterculture revolution as a whole—helping to motivate the masses and proliferate ideas. Power to the People presents more than 700 full-color images and excerpts from these astonishing publications, many of which have not been seen since they were first published almost fifty years ago. From the psychedelic pages of the Oracle, Haight-Ashbury’s paper of choice, to the fiery editorials of the Black Panther Party Paper, these papers were remarkable for their editors’ fervent belief in freedom of expression and their DIY philosophy. They were also extraordinary for their graphic innovations. Experimental typography and wildly inventive layouts reflect an alternative media culture as much informed by the space age, television, and socialism as it was by the great trinity of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Assembled by renowned graphic designer Geoff Kaplan, Power to the People pays homage in its layout to the radical press. Beyond its unparalleled images, Power to the People includes essays by Gwen Allen, Bob Ostertag, and Fred Turner, as well as a series of recollections edited by Pamela M. Lee, all of which comment on the critical impact of the alternative press in the social and popular movements of those turbulent years. Power to the People treats the design practices of that moment as activism in its own right that offers a vehement challenge to the dominance of official media and a critical form of self-representation. No other book surveys in such variety the highly innovative graphic design of the underground press, and certainly no other book captures the era with such an unmatched eye toward its aesthetic and look. Power to the People is not just a major compendium of art from the ’60s and ’70s—it showcases how the radical media graphically fashioned the image of a countercultural revolution that still resounds to this day.

By: Geoff Kaplan
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 31mm, Width: 26mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 1.758kg
ISBN: 9780226424354
ISBN 10: 0226424359
Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 May 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974

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 to anyone who wants to speak out in the twenty-first century. -David Joselit, Yale University