Dreams Unreal

The Genesis of the Psychedelic Rock Poster

Titus O'Brien (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2024
University of New Mexico Press (Verlag)
978-0-8263-6735-8 (ISBN)

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The music scene that sprang up across the Bay Area from 1965 to 1970 was energetic, immensely creative, and loudly outspoken. A group of young visual artists provided perfectly trippy visuals to accompany soundtracks by bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, the Doors, and many more.

Honorable Mention for Art in 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

The music scene that sprang up across the Bay Area from 1965 to 1970 was energetic, immensely creative, and loudly outspoken. Bands needed theaters to play in, music promoters needed to get the word out about the shows, and a group of talented young artists producing dreamy, free-form work needed a medium of expression. Thus was born the psychedelic rock poster, one of the most explosively inventive, instantly recognizable, and profoundly influential aesthetic movements of the last century. A group of young visual artists provided perfectly trippy visuals to accompany soundtracks by bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, the Doors, and many more. These artists - including Lee Conklin, Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Bonnie Maclean, Victor Moscoso, Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, and others created a new artistic genre: the collectible rock concert poster. Some are household names today while others are largely forgotten, but the poster art that gave visual life to the amazing music lives on in Dreams Unreal.

Published in association with the Albuquerque Museum.

Artist, writer, and curator Titus O'Brien has exhibited his work internationally as well as curated exhibitions for a range of for- and nonprofit art spaces. He has taught studio art, art history, and creative writing at the University of Texas, Columbia College Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among other institutions. As a curator at the Albuquerque Museum, his exhibitions included Hard Edge Abstraction, Spirit of Creation: Works by Contemporary Native American Artists, The Taos Moderns, and Dreams Unreal.

Foreword. San Francisco’s Psychedelic Poster Movement — Scott B. Montgomery
Preface — Andrew Connors
Introduction
Part I. Set and Setting
Earthquakes
Psychedelic, man
Boom!
Pied Pipers
Going Furthur
Can You?
Soundtracks
Chasing Rabbits
Tribes Gather
Going to San Francisco
Longhairs Use Side Door
The Image Business
Shapes of Mind
Art? Fine.
Trippy
Part II. The Artists
The Big Five
The Second Wave and Beyond
Part III. Come Together
Collaborations
Acknowledgments
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2024
Vorwort	Scott B. Montgomery, Andrew Connors
Zusatzinfo	250 Illustrations, 200 colour plates, 50 figs.
Verlagsort	Albuquerque, NM
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8263-6735-6 / 0826367356
ISBN-13	978-0-8263-6735-8 / 9780826367358
Zustand	Neuware