(ART MAGAZINES) Johnson Phyllis; publisher Aspen Magazine Nu

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(ART MAGAZINES.) Johnson, Phyllis; publisher. Aspen Magazine. Numbers 1-10 in 9 volumes [complete]. Each volume is in a different format (a customized box or folder) filled with materials in a variety of formats, including phonograph recordings, posters, postcards, booklets, "flexidisc" and reels of super-8 movie film, by many of the leading figures in contemporary North American and British art and cultural criticism. Condition generally quite good, but box on #7 split at corners, other light surface wear. Should be Seen. New York: Roaring Fork Press / Aspen Communications Inc. 1965-71

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A complete set of "the first three-dimensional magazine," according to its publishers. Aspen began with issues devoted to their ski spa name, but then broke theme for their third issue which has become the well-known Pop Art issue designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. Subsequent issues were devoted to conceptual art, minimalist art, and postmodern critical theory, new voices in British arts and culture, the Fluxus group, art and literature of the psychedelic drug movement, and Asian art and philosophy. Contributors included William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Sol LeWitt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, John and Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, LaMont Young, and many others.