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CULTURAL STUDIES

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Inventory Press

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Boxed, Paperback, 2 vols, 8 x 10.75 in. / 272 pgs / 3 duotone / 400 bw / 3 posters.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 23   

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ISBN 9781941753095 TRADE
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"The spirit of Stein, Miller and Henrichs’ Blueprint for Counter Education remains resonant today."
- Hyperallergic

  

INVENTORY PRESS

Blueprint for Counter Education

By Maurice R. Stein, Larry Miller and Marshall Henrichs. Text by Paul Cronin, Adam Michaels, Jeffrey Schnapp.

Blueprint for Counter Education

Radical pedagogy from Bauhaus to Black Mountain: a defining document of '60s counterculture

Maurice R. Stein and Larry Miller’s Blueprint for Counter Education is one of the defining (but neglected) works of radical pedagogy of the Vietnam War era. Originally published as a boxed set by Doubleday in 1970, the book was accompanied by large graphic posters that could serve as a portable learning environment for a new process-based model of education, and a bibliography and checklist that map patterns and relationships between radical thought and artistic practices—from the modernist avant-gardes to postmodernism, from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College, from Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin to Buckminster Fuller and Norman O. Brown—with Herbert Marcuse and Marshall McLuhan serving as points of anchorage. Blueprint for Counter Education thus serves as a vital synthesis of the numerous intellectual currents in the countercultural debate on the radical reform of schools, universities and ways of learning. To accompany this new facsimile edition of the book and posters, an 80-page booklet features a conversation with the original Blueprint creators, Maurice R. Stein, Larry Miller and designer Marshall Henrichs, as well as essays from Jeffrey Schnapp, Paul Cronin and notes on the design by Adam Michaels of Project Projects.

Marshall Henrichs is a painter as well as a graphic designer; he studied with Richard Lindner, Walter Murch, George McNeil and Fredrico Castellon at the Pratt Institute. After graduation, he worked for several major New York publishers including Doubleday, where he served as art director. Among his editorial projects were various mainstream projects but also counterculture outliers such as Blueprint for Counter Education and Ira Einhorn's 78–187880 (Doubleday, 1972).

Larry Miller, sociologist, was a member of the editorial collectives of the New American Movement newspaper and the journal Socialist Revolution/Socialist Review. He has written about major theorists and writers such as Marx, Gramsci, Althusser and Machiavelli.

Maurice R. Stein is an American sociologist and innovator in higher education. Stein is co-recipient of the 1987 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section. Retired from Brandeis University since 2002, Stein resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Paul Cronin is the editor of On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director (2004), a collection of writings by British director Alexander Mackendrick; Werner Herzog’s A Guide for the Perplexed (2014), an interview book with the German director; and Lessons with Kiarostami (2014), based on workshops conducted by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. His films include “Look out Haskell, it’s real!” The Making of Medium Cool (2001; re-edited 2013), Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 (2003), In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead (2006) and A Time to Stir (forthcoming, 2017), a 15-hour historical documentary about the student protests at Columbia University in 1968.

Adam Michaels is the cofounder of New York–based design studio Project Projects and the founder of Inventory Press. His work focuses on the active synthesis of typography and images—as well as editorial and design work—as a means of conveying significant content to diverse audiences. Project Projects works on books, exhibitions, identity systems and websites with clients such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture, MoMA, SALT Istanbul and Steven Holl Architects, and has been chosen twice as a finalist for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. The studio's work has been widely published, and its principals have lectured and taught both nationally and internationally. The third and most recent title in the Inventory Books series is The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback, by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels, which was further elaborated upon as a full-length vinyl LP entitled The Electric Information Age Album.

Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Jeffrey T. Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian at Stanford University, where he founded the Stanford Humanities Lab in 1999. A cultural historian, designer and curator, he is the author of over 20 books and hundreds of essays. His most recent books are The Electric Information Age Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012); Modernitalia (Peter Lang, 2012); and Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, 2012), coauthored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld and Todd Presner. The Library beyond the Book, coauthored with Matthew Battles, was published by Harvard University Press in 2014. Schnapp is professor of romance literatures at Harvard, where he also teaches in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, in addition to directing metaLAB and codirecting the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.


Marshall Henrichs is a painter as well as a graphic designer; he studied with Richard Lindner, Walter Murch, George McNeil and Fredrico Castellon at the Pratt Institute. After graduation, he worked for several major New York publishers including Doubleday, where he served as art director. Among his editorial projects were various mainstream projects but also counterculture outliers such as Blueprint for Counter Education and Ira Einhorn's 78–187880 (Doubleday, 1972).

Larry Miller, sociologist, was a member of the editorial collectives of the New American Movement newspaper and the journal Socialist Revolution/Socialist Review. He has written about major theorists and writers such as Marx, Gramsci, Althusser and Machiavelli.

Maurice R. Stein is an American sociologist and innovator in higher education. Stein is co-recipient of the 1987 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section. Retired from Brandeis University since 2002, Stein resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Paul Cronin is the editor of On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director (2004), a collection of writings by British director Alexander Mackendrick; Werner Herzog’s A Guide for the Perplexed (2014), an interview book with the German director; and Lessons with Kiarostami (2014), based on workshops conducted by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. His films include “Look out Haskell, it’s real!” The Making of Medium Cool (2001; re-edited 2013), Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16 (2003), In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead (2006) and A Time to Stir (forthcoming, 2017), a fifteen-hour historical documentary about the student protests at Columbia University in 1968.

Adam Michaels is the cofounder of New York–based design studio Project Projects and the founder of Inventory Press. His work focuses on the active synthesis of typography and images—as well as editorial and design work—as a means of conveying significant content to diverse audiences. Project Projects works on books, exhibitions, identity systems, and websites with clients such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture, MoMA, SALT Istanbul, and Steven Holl Architects, and has been chosen twice as a finalist for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. The studio's work has been widely published, and its principals have lectured and taught both nationally and internationally. The third and most recent title in the Inventory Books series is The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback, by Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Adam Michaels, which was further elaborated upon as a full-length vinyl LP entitled The Electric Information Age Album.

Before moving to Harvard in 2011, Jeffrey T. Schnapp occupied the Pierotti Chair of Italian at Stanford University, where he founded the Stanford Humanities Lab in 1999. A cultural historian, designer, and curator, he is the author of over twenty books and hundreds of essays. His most recent books are The Electric Information Age Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012); Modernitalia (Peter Lang, 2012); and Digital_Humanities (MIT Press, 2012), coauthored with Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, and Todd Presner. The Library beyond the Book, coauthored with Matthew Battles, was published by Harvard University Press in 2014. Schnapp is professor of romance literatures at Harvard, where he also teaches in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, in addition to directing metaLAB and codirecting the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Featured image is reproduced from Blueprint for Counter Education.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

New York Magazine

Sarah Spellings

"During the Vietnam war and the counterculture movements of the ’60s and ’70s, new ideas on education began to circulate, connecting education with avant-gardism and postmodernist art. Sociologists Maurice Stein and Larry Miller wrote the Blueprint for Counter Education to revolutionize the education system"

Print Magazine

Steven Heller

Blueprint for Counter Education by Maurice R. Stein and Larry Miller is one of the defining (but neglected) works of radical pedagogy of the Sixties era.

Hyperallergic

Edward M. Gómez

The spirit of Stein, Miller and Henrichs’ Blueprint for Counter Education remains resonant today. At its core lies the daring notion that, at any given time, in any given place, as needs and circumstances change, any group of people has the potential to build its own house of ideas.

Rain Taxi

Richard Kostelanetz

If the basic measure of an avant-garde classic is appreciation long after its initial appearance, then Blueprint for a Counter Education... scores. Perhaps one of the most extraordinary books published by an American commercial publisher... Nearly fifty years later, Blueprint for a Counter Education has been reprinted.

Rain Taxi

John Eisler

For having deepened our sense of one of the best known artists in the comics medium, this small treasure is the coffee book of the year.

Harvard University, metaLab

Jeffrey Schnapp

"One of the defining works of radical pedagogy of the Vietnam War era. First published in 1970, integrated into the Critical Studies curriculum at CalArts (where the authors served as deans and faculty), the original work was accompanied by posters intended to serve as a portable learning environment for a do-it-yourself, process-based model of education."

Blueprint for Counter Education

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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

MADELINE WEISBURG | DATE 9/1/2016

RADICAL PEDAGOGY: Madeline Weisburg Interviews Adam Michaels & Shannon Harvey of Inventory Press

RADICAL PEDAGOGY: Madeline Weisburg Interviews Adam Michaels & Shannon Harvey of Inventory Press

In 1970, Doubleday published Maurice R. Stein and Larry Miller’s radical Blueprint for Counter Education, a boxed set containing a book and three fold-out posters that provide a roadmap (but never a syllabus!) to redefine contemporary pedagogy, foregrounded by the philosophies of Marshall McLuhan and Herbert Marcuse. This spring, Inventory Press came out with a facsimile reprint expanded by one volume of new writing. In honor of returning students and educators everywhere, Madeline Weisburg spoke with Adam Michaels and Shannon Harvey—publishers of this truly wonderful new edition—about the remaking of a counterculture classic.
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FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/6/2016

Back to School Blueprint (for Counter Education)

Back to School Blueprint (for Counter Education)

On the back of the boxed 1970 edition of sociologists Maurice Stein and Larry Miller's radical Blueprint for Counter Education, the authors wrote, "Inside this box are three charts and a book, the tools for creating a new educational environment. This counter-university makes obsolete the traditional university process. Surrounded by charts, the participant will be confronted by ideas and issues that compel him to interact with everything going on around him—from movies, to riots, to political campaigns. There is no text book, no syllabus, no final exam; and the 'faculty' includes Marcuse, McLuhan, Eldridge Cleaver, and Jean-Luc Godard. THE REVOLUTION BEGINS HERE." From the Bauhaus to Black Mountain, read more about Inventory Press' facsimile reprint of this defining document of the 60s counter culture here! continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/18/2016

Blueprint for Counter Education

Blueprint for Counter Education

The 1970 edition of Blueprint for Counter Education was a defining document of the 60s counterculture. Long out-of-print, today a new facsimile edition has been published by Inventory Press—complete with three fold-out posters designed by Marshall Henrichs; original curriculum / handbook / shooting script by noted sociologist Maurice Stein (first Dean of CalArts Critical Studies program) and his collaborator Larry Miller; and a new 64-page booklet with additional materials including an interview with the authors and designer of the 1970 edition, notes on the design by pamphlet designer Adam Michaels of Project Projects, and essays by Paul Cronin and Jeffrey Schnapp, who calls the project "a wholesale attempt to enact a visual turn in the organization of knowledge in the form of a 'highly participative series of art-life games.'" continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/10/2016

Blueprint for Counter Education Launch at Harvard CCVA

Blueprint for Counter Education Launch at Harvard CCVA

Join Inventory Press Tuesday, May 10 at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to celebrate the launch of the expanded reprint of the radical pedagogy classic, Blueprint for Counter Education. Together with a two-day exhibition, the event brings together original authors Maurice Stein and Larry Miller in conversation with Jeffrey Schnapp of metaLAB (at) Harvard and Project Projects principal Adam Michaels. Book signing to follow a round-table discussion.
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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/1/2016

Join ARTBOOK | D.A.P. at the 2016 CAA Conference

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Join us February 4-6 in Booth 307 at the 2016 College Art Association Annual Conference! Browse key course adoption titles, new and classic monographs, influential surveys and exhibition catalogs and artists' writings.
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