Gåsblandaren 1955 [Blandaren]

[Stockholm]: Blandaren Magazine, 1955. Offset. Perfect bound. [54 pp]. Text in Swedish. 11 ½ x 16 ⅞ in. Some wear at spine, with some sheets loosening from binding; else very good. Item #6588

The world’s longest-running humor magazine, Blandaren was founded in 1863 by students from what is now known as the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. For a long time, it was legibly a students’ magazine, in which oblique and cautiously ironic approaches to the students’ fields of study were combined with a sense for both the innuendo and the absurd, served both in images and words. By the 1950s, almost a hundred years after its first issue, the magazine was a meeting point for young artists, strident in their explorations of form.

This issue is notable for its extensive black and white and color illustrations on variously colored papers, alongside witty and heart-rending texts. Published the same year as the famous Boulevardkartongen Tvångs-Blandaren issue, a box full of printed matter bearing the marks of Marcel Duchamp’s influence.

Price: $250.00