Los papeles (de la cultura) del ayer

Abstract

We attended an unexpected notifications of the so-called marginal Spanish cultural press, emerged during the Franco regime in the form of magazines and fanzines of various kinds, with a strong accent from a point of view of countercultural design in their proposals, endowed with an undeniable aesthetic appeal from the point of view of design. Through exhibitions, retrospectives and monographs these publications are reconstructing the cultural story of Spain, causing in turn fired debates in the current cultural press. There is thus the apparent paradox that the official cultural press is now being forced to talk about the marginal cultural press of yesteryear. We consider accordingly what cultural publications may have tomorrow have a value and functionality similar to that of that marginal press.