Toward Revolutionary Art (TRA) magazine

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San Francisco, California, n.d., stapled wrappers

VG

Short-lived countercultural magazine from the late 1970s “published by people in the arts who, in response to the bankruptcy of established art practices & institutions, wish to redirect their work toward the emancipation of aesthetic sensibilities as being an integral part of the whole revolutionary process…” Contributors to this issue included: Ken Light in a photo essay profiling workers at a shoe factory in Nelsonville, Ohio; John Curl, with an essay on the relationship between art, work, & class; an interview with the San Francisco Mime Troupe; poetry & original art by D. Watkins; revolutionary poetry from the Philippines; Clarita Rojas' condemnation of dictatorships, in verse; & cutting-edge poster & billboard art. VG condition, in 48 pp., stapled binding, yellow wrappers decorated in red & black to front. Scattered light soiling to exterior, tanning & slight edgewear to extremities. Interior pages white, completely clean & unmarked.