Another thing I've gained from UBUweb is Aspen Magazine. It was the greatest thing humanity had ever managed when it ran from 1965 to 1971. A three-dimensional magazine, featuring articles, artworks, audio, and film recordings, the issues were less published than they were released, inclosed in a box as a unit instead of compiled into some sort of singular form. If it had been the 1990s, it very easily would have become a webzine... not unlike 37 Minutes, Stationary. In fact, that's where the inspiration came from.
Issue 3 was the Pop Art issue, edited by Andy Warhol and David Dalton. The items included are amazing; paintings from the Powers Collection, a copy of The Factory's one-shot newspaper The Plastic Exploding Inevitable. The contents include essays, with the stand-out to me being the marvelous Bob Chamberlain's work The View from the Dancefloor. The audio recordings are amazing, of course that's not hard when your contributors include John Cale of the Velvet Underground. There are a pair of flipbooks, both of them of lovely avant garde works, including Kiss by Andy Warhol, which may be his film that is most intertwined with the history of film. The only piece from this collection I've ever seen in person was the Ten Trip Ticket Book, a work designed to resemble a ticket book like you might purchase for an amusement park in the 1950s, but it's actually a series of excerpts from a conference on LSD. It's in the collection of Timothy Leary material at the DigiBarn. This is an excellent view of the Pop movement OUTSiDE of the gallery. While it's usually seen as a painterly movement, when it was still considered 'Neo-Dadaist' that was not the case. This box shows the breadth of Pop, and is an amazing snapshot of the moment! You can find the issue up on UBUweb here!
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