Psychedelic Artists

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era

by: Christoph Grunenberg

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Colorful, thought-provoking, eclectic, and readable, Summer of Love is the definitive guide to the art of the psychedelic era. Richly illustrated, the book presents a wide range of images of artworks-including posters, record covers, photography, and film-alongside a wealth of contextual material and a number of informative essays by leading academics, cultural theorists, and critics.

High Art: A History of the Psychedelic Poster

by: Ted Owen

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Sixties psychedelic poster art has stretched beyond the ephemeral and functional nature of its design to become highly collectable and internationally recognized. High Art explores both the creation of psychedelia and the imagery born of this movement. It covers the Avalon and Fillmore ballrooms who commissioned the art, the UFO Club in London and features leading American artists, profiles of British artists and it describes the collectors' experience.

The San Francisco Oracle / The Psychedelic Newspaper of the Haight Ashbury (Digital Re-Creation)

Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 12/08/2009)

Source documents of an eclectic spirituality and social philosophy that continues to influence American society. --The San Francisco Chronicle

Takes you to the streets of Haight Ashbury at a time when irt was the Olympus of the newborn world. --The New York Times Sunday Book Review

The most beautiful newspaper even seen on the streets of the planet. --Abbie Hoffman quoted in The Los Angeles Times