(New York: Aspen, 1966).
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Unbound. Issue 2, "The White Box." Designed by Frank Kirk, with Tony Angotti. Contains the following items:
1. "Farewell to a Canyon" by an unnamed author, 14 loose pages in card folder.
2. "Ski Racing / Edging the Possible" by Martin Luray, single page accordion-folded into card folder.
3. "Scriabin Again and Again..." by Faubion Bowers, small booklet.
4. "The Adaptable House" by Peggy Clifford, large poster folded into small card folder.
5. "The Young Out's VS the Establishment," small booklet with short essays by Lionel Trilling, Stanley Hirsin, Abby Mann, Norman Corwin, Robert Blumofe, Arthur Knight, John Burchard, David T. Bazelon, Robert Osborn, Albert and David Maysles, Jean Renoir, Carroll Baker, Eva Marie Saint, Dr. Karl Menninger, Jack Garfein, and Richard Dyer MacCann.
6. Music by Alexander Scriabin played by Daniel Kunin, original 33 1/3 acetate flexi-disc recording.
Some wear and soiling to the white box, otherwise all items in fine condition.
*Aspen* was a multimedia "magazine" about the arts published by Phyllis Johnson, a former editor for *Women's Wear Daily* and *Advertising Age*, from 1965 to 1971. Each issue was a custom-made box containing separate booklets, pamphlets, records, posters, and in one issue, a Super-8 movie reel – each item representing what would have been an article in a traditional printed magazine. Each issue had its own editor and designer, which provided unprecedented artistic originality. However, not surprisingly, its avant-garde format made it impractical, if not downright impossible, for the magazine to support itself. Advertising was supposed to help pay for the costs of production, but the ads, which were contained in a folder at the bottom of the box, were easily ignored. Furthermore, it proved difficult to adhere to the publication schedule of four issues a year. In the end, only ten issues were published. A much repeated assessment is: "Perhaps Aspen was a folly, but it was a vastly pleasurable one, with a significant place in art history. The list of contributors included some of the most interesting artists of the 20th Century. And as an exemplar of creative publishing, Aspen was a wonder. Its contents, however, are all but lost: few copies of Aspen have survived."
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