| Description |
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm |
| Summary |
"[This book] presents countercultures' psychedelic poster art from its beat origins to its stadium rock zenith. Portfolios of 30+ poster artists--Rick Griffen, Victor Moscoso, Mouse Kelly & Hapshash among them--are laid bared for all to see. For the first time the sketchbooks & paste-ups, the printing plates & color separations are unveiled to reveal the layers of process integral to the design of each poster. Curated by 'inspirational times' collector and rock art expert, Peter Golding, [this book] is packed with more than 750 examples of posters, artworks & logos, created for the bands that epitomized their era, their sound & their scene from San Francisco & the West Coast, through Detroit & New York, to swinging London & Revolutionary Paris. Rock legends promoted in the posters include Big Brother & the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Buckley, the Yardbirds, Cream, Led Zeppelin & many more. Barry Miles--cultural commentator & founder of International Times--contextualize the exquisitely curated pages. punctuated with special features on the socio-political phenomena that permeated the music & the artwork of each period--underground clubs, head shops, obscenity trails, legalize pot rallies, acid tests, & violent protest--the story is completed by personal insights from the artists themselves."-- Back cover. |
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Music -- Posters.
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Music -- Pictorial works.
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Rock concerts.
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Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
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| Added Author |
Miles, Barry, 1943- author.
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| ISBN |
9780500293539 |
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0500293538 |
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