Editoria e controcultura: la storia dell'Ed.912

[Autom. eng. transl.] In Milan in the mid-sixties, a scenario of socio-political tensions in which the ambition to subvert the current cultural models emerges, the little more than twenty-year-olds Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Gianni Sassi and Sergio Albergoni founded the Ed. 912, a publishing house that, in just two years, from 1967 to 1969, gives life to a plurality of initiatives and projects, including Fluxus magazines, posters, books, objects and concerts, which make it "the largest avant-garde publishing house in Italy". The adventure of Ed.912 is short and crossed by contradictions, but it proves capable of recording and reflecting, with absolute anticipation, the progressive transformation that in that period affected the territories of art, increasingly influenced and contaminated by the nascent culture alternative. This is a radical change, which responds to the need for a metamorphosis of cultural work, to be understood as a concrete, real, political action, far from purely theoretical and aesthetic speculations. With a note in the appendix by Gianni-Emilio Simonetti.