In 1970, Doubleday published Maurice R. Stein and Larry Millers radical Blueprint for Counter Education , a boxed set containing a book and three fold-out posters that provide a roadmap (but never a syllabus!) to redefine contemporary pedagogy, foregrounded by the philosophies of Marshall McLuhan and Herbert Marcuse. This spring, InventoryPress came out with a facsimile reprint expanded by one volume of new writing. In honor of returning students and educators everywhere, Madeline Weisburg spoke with Adam Michaels and Shannon Harveypublishers of this truly wonderful new editionabout the remaking of a counterculture classic.
Featured spreads are from Mungo Thomson: Mail, a new artist's book published by InventoryPress to document one aspect of Thomson's 2008 exhibition at the Hammer Museum, during which every letter, package, notice, magazine, flyer, restaurant menu, exhibition postcard, vendor catalog and piece of junk mail that came to the museum was collected, unopened, to be documented at the end of the show. "Beyond being another example of correspondence art or art that uses correspondence as a material, Thomsons Mail is a byproduct of accretion and accumulation," Aram Moshayedi writes. "Entropy and decay are terms that are often evoked in discussions of art. Works of art are, after all, like all living things, prone and vulnerable to time. The institutions of conservation and preservation tend to deny this, promising that paintings and sculptures are stable and frozen in permanent stasis. Mail, by contrast, supplies this tendency with something of a rejoinder."
Suppose there is a leaf of a tree. When we see the tree, the leaf is a part of it, pioneering Japanese artist Jiro Takamatsu wrote in 1972. However, if we see it as a leaf, it becomes the whole. When we say a certain existence (being) is a whole, we mean the agreement of its existence (being) and its concept (language). When we say something is a part, we mean the disagreement of the two. I am interested in parts because of such disagreements. But for me, these disagreements must be intensified and their gaps must be widened. Reproduced from the appropriately concise and exquisite new monograph from InventoryPress and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Compound is a book design produced 1976-91.
Blueprint for Counter Education By Maurice R. Stein, Larry Miller and Marshall Henrichs. Text by Paul Cronin, Adam Michaels, Jeffrey Schnapp. Maurice R. Stein and Larry Millers Blueprint for Counter Education is one of the defining (but neglected) works of radical pedagogy of the Vietnam War era. Originally published as a boxed set by Doubleday in >>more InventoryPress ISBN 9781941753095 US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE Boxed, Pbk, 2 vols, 8 x 10.75 in. / 272 pgs / 3 duotone / 400 b&w; / 3 posters. Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
Saturday, September 21, from 5:307 PM, graphic designer, writer and educator David Reinfurt will compress eight years of lectures given in the graphic design program at Princeton University into exactly one (perhaps manic) hour, in celebration of his new book, A *New* Program for Graphic Design, published by InventoryPress and D.A.P. Organized by SFMOMA's head librarian and archivist David Senior, this talk will be held in The Classroom in the Basement Theater, with a brief introduction by Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels of InventoryPress. Free poster giveaway (below), while supplies last!
Seeing | Making > Room for Thought By Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam Michaels. Showing how the montage principle allows thought to occupy the space between two seemingly unrelated things, Seeing | Making > Room for Thought both studies and embodies how an arrangement of images can be a >>more InventoryPress ISBN 9781941753538 US $29.95 CAN $41.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 400 pgs / 600 b&w.; Pub Date: 02/21/2023 Awaiting stock
Jessica Dickinson: Under | Press. | With-This | Hold- | Of-Also | Of/How | Of-More | Of:Know Using painting, drawing, and abstraction as markers of a space outside verbal description, Jessica Dickinson examines the slow exchanges between perception, matter, and psychology that develop in peripheral spaces. Each of her works is developed >>more InventoryPress ISBN 9781941753040 US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.25 x 9.25 in. / 160 pgs. Pub Date: 05/01/2015 In stock
Museum of Capitalism Edited by FICTILIS. Text by Lucy Lippard, Lester K. Spence, T.J. Demos, Chantal Mouffe, McKenzie Wark, et al. Afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson. This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Sketches and renderings >>more InventoryPress ISBN 9781941753156 US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE Hbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 90 color. Pub Date: 09/26/2017 Not available
Get Out By Jordan Peele. Text by Tananarive Due. A New York Times 2019 holiday gift guide pick Jordan Peeles powerful thriller Get Out debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a Guess Whos Coming to Dinner? for the age of Obama and >>more InventoryPress ISBN 9781941753286 US $19.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 224 pgs / 150 b&w.; Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
The Detroit Printing Co-op By Danielle Aubert. In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit with wife and partner Lorraine Nybakken, Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a Chicago dealer, transported it, in parts, back to >>more InventoryPress ISBN 9781941753255 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color / 20 b&w.; Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock
Camille Henrot: Elephant Child Elephant Child is a natural extension of the artistic practice of New York-based French artist Camille Henrot. Originated during an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, which laid the groundwork for her 2013 video >>more InventoryPress / Koenig Books ISBN 9781941753064 US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 320 pgs. Pub Date: 07/01/2015 Not available
Steven Leiber: Catalogs Text by Philip Aarons, Elisheva Biernoff, Alexandra Bowes, Jessica Brier, Ann Butler, Genie Candau, Christophe Cherix, Susanne Cockrell, Arnaud Desjardins, Marc Fischer, Chris Fitzpatrick, David Leiber, Michael Lowe, Adam Michaels, Tom Patchett, David Platzker, Marcia Reed, Lawrence Rinder, Anne Rorimer, David Senior, Erika Torri, Andrew Tosiello, Robin Wright. Steven Leiber was a pioneering San Francisco art dealer, collector and gallerist who specialized in the dematerialized art practices of the 1960s and 1970s and the ephemera and documentation spawned by conceptual art and other >>more InventoryPress & RITE Editions ISBN 9781941753248 US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE Pbk, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 252 pgs / 300 color. Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock
Endless Shout Edited with text by Anthony Elms. Text by Raúl de Nieves, Cynthia Oliver, The Otolith Group, taisha paggett. Conversations with George Lewis, Jennie C. Jones, Charles Gaines, Fred Moten, Wadada Leo Smith. Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, >>more InventoryPress / Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia ISBN 9781941753163 US $35.00 CAN $49.95 TRADE Pbk, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 226 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock
Featured image, of Raymond Pettibon flyers produced as dealer catalog 45 (of 52), August 2006, by legendary San Francisco art dealer, collector and gallerist Steven Leiber, is reproduced from from Steven Leiber: Catalogs, launching tonight at Printed Matter. (Panel features Ann Butler, David Platzker and David Leiber with moderation by David Senior; exhibition opens October 10, 2019.) Housed in a kraft envelope, this catalog-cum-edition features 18 inkjet-printed cards and one stick of bubble gum enclosed in a wrapper. Edition of 120. In the amazing book just out from InventoryPress & Rite Editions, Leiber's brother, David, explains in his essay, "In his mid-thirties, my brother Steven Leiber began the production and mailing of The Catalogs, three on average per year, resulting in about fifty publications total. Technically speaking, these publications were sales catalogs; however they became collectibles if you were in the position to comprehend what you were holding in your hands: an artwork playing with the boundaries of art and commerce, the authentic and inauthentic. Steve referred to these objects simply as catalogs His life was dedicated to the material and legacy of the artists he championed, and his tireless research and knowledge is manifest in every single catalog, which were flawless. He had absolutely no tolerance for inaccurate information, not even a typo. He did not make mistakes. Being able to work in a clear-headed manner, efficiently and flawlessly, required a daily ritualistic, albeit modest, routine: getting up early to communicate with Europe, a brisk, long walk in the fresh air, an espresso at Peets, a punctual and quick lunch in the neighborhood, more short phone calls, a walk to the post office, a home cooked dinner with an excellent glass of wine, and early to bed. My brother was endowed with unusual clarity and focus. He thought things through, and his catalogs became the perfect vehicle to synthesize his knowledge and passion into a creative expression." To understand the full scope of the experimentation and support of radical artists making radical work, you'll have to read the book. It's not something you can just condense. Too authentic, too cool. Who is doing this today?
Maria Hupfield: Breaking Protocol Edited with introduction by Maria Hupfield. Foreword by Natalie Diaz, Carin Kuoni. Collaborative conversations on Indigenous performance art, convened by a leading practitioner In Breaking Protocol , Brooklyn-based artist Maria Hupfield (born 1975) embarked on a research project to articulate the protocols of Indigenous per >>more InventoryPress / Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School ISBN 9781941753576 US $35 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 40 color / 10 b&w.; Pub Date: 04/18/2023 Awaiting Stock
Join InventoryPress Tuesday, May 10 at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to celebrate the launch of the expanded reprint of the radical pedagogy classic, Blueprint for Counter Education . Together with a two-day exhibition, the event brings together original authors Maurice Stein and Larry Miller in conversation with Jeffrey Schnapp of metaLAB (at) Harvard and Project Projects principal Adam Michaels . Book signing to follow a round-table discussion.
On the back of the boxed 1970 edition of sociologists Maurice Stein and Larry Miller's radical Blueprint for Counter Education , the authors wrote, "Inside this box are three charts and a book, the tools for creating a new educational environment. This counter-university makes obsolete the traditional university process. Surrounded by charts, the participant will be confronted by ideas and issues that compel him to interact with everything going on around himfrom movies, to riots, to political campaigns. There is no text book, no syllabus, no final exam; and the 'faculty' includes Marcuse, McLuhan, Eldridge Cleaver, and Jean-Luc Godard. THE REVOLUTION BEGINS HERE." From the Bauhaus to Black Mountain, read more about InventoryPress' facsimile reprint of this defining document of the 60s counter culture here!
Thursday, October 10 from 79 PM, David Reinfurt will lecture on his new book, A *New* Program for Graphic Design (published by InventoryPress and D.A.P. ) at the Yale School of Art. Free and open to the public!
Featured spread is from Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay from InventoryPress. Featuring copious annotations by Peele himself and an enlightening essay by noted scholar of Black Horror and Afrofuturism, Tananarive Due, this pocket-sized paperback should be required reading for every person in America. Writing on his responsibility as a filmmaker towards Black audiences, Peele says, "I came into this movie thinking I'm going to give Black audiences the horror movie they want but are not getting. It's going to be postmodern commentary on the state of horror itself. Scream for Black people. This film is about the voicelessness that we endure when we're in the theater watching a screennot having any control over what's happening in the plot. We're put in this dark room, and there's almost no representation of us on that screen to connect with. If I could do my part to alleviate the lack of representation, it would be a good thing because Black audiences are not given the opportunity to work through our fears and pain in this way nearly enough."
Join us for David Reinfurt's lecture-slash-launch-event for A *New* Program for Graphic Design Saturday, September 21 at the NY Art Book Fair! From 5:307 PM in the Basement Classroom, the brilliant (if manic) Dexter Sinister / O-R-G / Serving Library co-founder will compress eight years of lectures given in the graphic design program at Princeton University into one *illuminating* hour. Free poster from InventoryPress, while supplies last! Also available throughout the fair at the Artbook Event Space at the NYABF!
In the spring of 1967, the Whitney Museum of American art gave Louise Nevelson her first major museum retrospective. (She was 68 years old.) Afterwards, the show traveled to the young and hungry Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, where the artist was given total freedom to go big. "Everything, upstairs, downstairs, even the stairwell," was turned over to the artist, according to a September, 1967 review in the Boston Globe. "Everything except a measly little desk by the door which was glared by sunshine had been stripped to allow Nevelsons work to be the sole thing in the place, to BE the place. I must recompose the environment, she had said. Windows had been blocked out, permanent unmovable exhibits covered, decorations obliterated, walls repainted." This refreshingly concise volume, published by InventoryPress and Rose Art Museum, does an excellent job of bringing that historic show to life. Called a "welcome, historical deep dive," by Ursula editor Randy Kennedy, it is "the product of an adventurous faith in artists that more museums should revisit today."
Launching Saturday, September 21, from 5:307 PM in David Senior's Classroom Series at the NY Art Book Fair, David Reinfurt's A *New* Program for Graphic Design is *the* communication design textbook of and for the 21st century. Featured spreadfrom the chapter on interfaceconcerns the results of Reinfurt's 2017 research project recreating Bruno Munari's 1965 Tetracono device. "It was a manufactured object of steel and aluminum, but its purpose was to produce a constantly changing image," Reinfurt writes. "Its rhetorical design was in its script: how the cones turn, the sequence, the phrasing, its temporal dimension. Munari called it both a product for exploring programming and an object for understanding forms in the process of becoming. Both of these lessons seem equally, or maybe more, important now than they did in 1965." Copies of the book will be available at the InventoryPress booth and at the Artbook Bookstore Event Space.
Tuesday, October 23 from 68PM, Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles and InventoryPress present the launch of Dimensions of Citizenship: Architecture and Belonging from the Body to the Cosmos, the official catalogue of the US Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice.
Saturday, August 15 at 3PM PDT / 5PM CST / 6PM EST, join Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore and InventoryPress for a live stream with artist Mungo Thomson, in conversation with Tosh Berman, discussing Thomson's new book, Mail. This event is free with registration here. Email bookshw-la@artbook.com to order a copy of Mungo Thomson: Mail with free shipping in the U.S.
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