[FRENCH COUNTER-CULTURE] Le Parapluie [The Umbrella]. Nos. 1-13 (all published)

Paris; Imprimerie "Le Souterrain", 1970-1973. Folios (43.8 × 31 cm). Original color illustrated self-wrappers; first issue 16, all other issues 24 pp. each with numerous reproductions of photographs, mostly printed in one or two colors, as well as several comic strips. A few leaves somewhat toned and with wear to edges; a small number of pages are slightly fox-stained; else very good.

Complete run of the rare Parisian underground music and counterculture monthly, combining music journalism and radical politics with adventurous illustrations, comics, and written features on diverse aspects of the international counterculture experience, particularly the psychosexual theories of Reich, coverage of conflicts in Vietnam, Algeria, Ireland, and South Africa, the nascent ecological movement, drug use and regulation, film, "anti-authoritarian education", occultism, "sexual liberation", and underground new media.

Experimental rocker and artist Enu was a major figure in the Parisian underground in the early 1970s and deeply committed to alternative media and new modes of distribution - primarily through Le Parapluie, video, and comics. International in scope, Le Parapluie was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate network, with notable contributions by artists and authors such as Dominique Tarlé, Jean-Louis Brau, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Andy Warhol, and reviews or articles on music festivals and groups including the Isle of Wight, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Roxy Music, The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, The Who, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, The Yardbirds, David Bowie, and Sun Ra among others. Together presenting a sophisticated and frank rendering of French counterculture shifting from the psychedelic era toward the harder-edge iconoclasm of protopunk.

Bernière/Primois 32f.

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