After rethinking my question due to it being to big a subject I decided to look more closely into publishing I was particularly interested by the history most specifically movements within that history that used publishing as its medium. I came across a publication called post digital print which examines the mutation it believes print is currently going through. I was particluar intrested by chapter 2 A history of alternative publishing in this there was a recurring theme of 'intermedia' and 'fluxus'.
Quotes
'another art movement, arguably one of the most influential to our current communication-driven mediascape' - Ludovico, Alessandro
"In these carefully designed objects, produced in limited
editions that were in fact quite cheap to make, the printed components
(brochures, leaflets, flip books, maps, playing cards, etc) were always
an integral part of the concept." - Ludovico, Alessandro
expanding consciousness"
