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COUNTERBLAST
- Writer
- Marshall McLuhan
- Price
- $20.00
- Date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Bootleg edition
- Format
- Zines
- Size
- 22 × 29 cm
- Length
- 20 pp
- Genre
- Theory, Arts Writing
In 1954 Marshall McLuhan, appropriating the visual style of Wyndham Lewis’ BLAST, produced his first book (more of a zine really) COUNTERBLAST, printing it on his office equipment at the University of Toronto.
This facsimile is produced in a bootleg edition of 150 numbered copies. It has been ‘queered’ by a Toronto artist, anonymously, by giving it pink covers instead of blue. The text is a condemnation of Toronto smugness, as applicable today as it was in 1954.
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