Blueprint for Counter Education

Expanded Reprint
7 7/8 × 10 5/8 inch slipcase containing two 7 5/8 × 10 1/8 inch softcover books and three 45 × 37 1/4 inch posters
ISBN 978-1-941753-09-5
Design by Marshall Henrichs (original materials) and Project Projects (new materials)
Distributed by ArtBook/DAP

Available now at Inventory Press

$55.00

Blueprint for Counter Education is one of the defining (but neglected) works of radical pedagogy of the Vietnam War era. Originally published in 1970 and integrated into the design of the Critical Studies curriculum at CalArts, 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 avant-gardes to postmodernism—with Marcuse and McLuhan serving as points of anchorage.

To accompany this new facsimile edition of the book and posters, a 64-page booklet will feature a conversation with the original Blueprint creators Maurice 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.