Counter Print

Victoria Horne is Senior Lecturer in Arts at Northumbria University

‘Like the radical publications it charts, this book intervenes into art history, offering vital new perspectives on periodicals as sites of cultural resistance, community, and world-making. Though grounded in a British context, its insights resonate far beyond, revealing the transformative possibilities of publishing about—and as—art.’—Gwen Allen, Professor of Art History, San Francisco State University and author of Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art

• Introduction: Paper weight: periodicals and printed things in the contemporary art field – Victoria Horne1 The Magazine as manifesto: Black Phoenix and the reproduction of racial politics in 1970s Britain – Samuel Bibby2 Spare Rib, 1972–1981: Art, activism and the WLM Press – Victoria Horne and Sonny Ruggiero3 ‘Criticisms and practice in a continuous dialogue’: how periodicals facilitated group-work in British feminist art – Lily Evans Hill4 ‘Images that don’t, in general, exist’: Format Photographers Agency and the politics of representation in print – Catherine Spencer5 Escaping the straitjacket: art school influences on the development of Artscribe in the 1970s – Matthew Macaulay6 ‘To live a life that felt meaningful’: reflections on Feminist Arts News (with Victoria Horne)7 ‘We always emphasised the visual’: art and design in Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine – Alina Khakoo8 Mukti: South Asian feminist art and activism – Alice Correia9 Urban Fox Press: a revolutionary new publisher – Susannah Thompson10 Inventory: the journal as post-media form – Anthony Iles11 e-flux: a transformative paradigm in art periodical publishing – Camilla Salvaneschi12 Against white pages: an Interview with The White Pube (with Briony Carlin and Samuel Bibby)Select bibliography