Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s (The MIT Press)
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The history of an aesthetic sensibility that began with Op Art and album covers; with more than seventy-five stunning color images.This eye-popping book offers a visual history of the psychedelic sensibility. In pop culture, that sensibility is associated with lava lamps, album covers, and "teashades," but it first manifested itself in the extreme colors and kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn't die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces it through the day-glo colors of painters Peter Saul, Alex Grey, and Kenny Scharf, the pill and hemp leaf paintings of Fred Tomaselli,
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Manufacturer: The MIT Press
Release date: 5 March 2010
ISBN-10 : 0262014041 | ISBN-13: 9780262014045
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Release date: 5 March 2010
ISBN-10 : 0262014041 | ISBN-13: 9780262014045
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"A surprisingly boring selection of artworks that can be classified as more or less psychedelic, depending on how one defines the term. There are a few gems included for sure, such as the three oils by Alex Gray, Isaac Abrams and Robert Williams, but the rest of the presented pieces are really quite unimpressive, and occasionally even somewhat annoying. And the pictures are too small. One of the three introductory essays, i.e. the one by Daniel Pinchbeck is, however, wonderful โ perhaps because"
Keaster rated this 4/10 4 years, 2 months ago