TY - BOOK ID - 137833938 TI - The Detroit Printing Co-op : the politics of the joy of printing PY - 2019 SN - 9781941753255 1941753256 PB - Los Angeles, CA Inventory Press DB - UniCat KW - Publishers and publishing, Cooperative KW - Small presses KW - Publishers and publishing, Cooperative KW - Publishers and publishing, Cooperative KW - Politics in art KW - Social problems in art KW - History KW - History KW - Influence KW - Political aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137833938 AB - Between 1970 and 1980, the Detroit Printing Co-op, spearheaded by Fredy and Lorraine Perlman, was responsible for the first English translation of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, printed journals like SDS' Radical America, ultra-left books by their in-house press, Black & Red, and countless posters, pamphlets, and books printed by high school students, black radicals, labor organizers, and anarchists who made use of the freely available facilities at the Co-op. Fredy Perlman was not a printer or a designer by training, but was deeply engaged in the ideas, issues, processes, and materiality of printing. While at the Detroit Printing Co-op, he rethought the possibilities of prit by experimenting with overprinting, collage techniques, and different kinds of papers. Behind the calls to action and class consciousness written in his publications, there was an innate sense of the politics of design, experimentation, and pride of craft. "The Detroit Printing Co-op" is a timely exploration of the history, output, and legacy of this unique enterprise, and serves as a testament to the power of printing, publishing, design, and distribution. ER -