Cover of Blast #1

Blast #1

Blast series

A facsimile edition of the first issue of the 'Blast', which documents in its in original format the raw energy, violent humor, graphic inventiveness and intellectual hard edge of the most compelling and vital magazine project of the modernist movement.

Themes
art
Audience
adult

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