The Amazing Aspen Magazine’s Final Issue: “The Asia Issue, 1971”
source: http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/10/the-amazing-aspen-magazinersquos-final-issue/
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Published only ten times between 1965 and 1971, “Aspen” billed itself as the first three-dimensional magazine. Most issues arrived in a notebook-size box stuffed with articles that had been printed individually rather than stapled together. But it was the nature of its contents that made “Aspen” magazine stand out like a ski lift in a cornfield. Each issue was as likely to hold postcards, posters and phonograph records as scholarly essays.
Among the magazine’s 235 contributors were many prominent figures on the 1960’s cultural landscape, including: Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, John Cage, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, John Lennon, Marshall McLuhan, Yoko Ono, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol. As a paragon of creative publishing, "Aspen" was a true wonder. Its contents, however, are all but lost; few copies of Aspen have survived. In 1971, “Aspen” published its 10th and final issue, the “Asia Issue” that contained fifteen numbered items, no advertisements and no editorial credits.
This detailed article about Aspen's “Asian Issue” presents a number of beautiful vintage photographs of historic works of art from the Far East, as well as music audio and an audio tour of “Aspen”, the very first multimedia magazine in a box.
Among the magazine’s 235 contributors were many prominent figures on the 1960’s cultural landscape, including: Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, John Cage, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, John Lennon, Marshall McLuhan, Yoko Ono, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol. As a paragon of creative publishing, "Aspen" was a true wonder. Its contents, however, are all but lost; few copies of Aspen have survived. In 1971, “Aspen” published its 10th and final issue, the “Asia Issue” that contained fifteen numbered items, no advertisements and no editorial credits.
This detailed article about Aspen's “Asian Issue” presents a number of beautiful vintage photographs of historic works of art from the Far East, as well as music audio and an audio tour of “Aspen”, the very first multimedia magazine in a box.
