Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s Contributor(s): Rubin, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262014041 ISBN-13: 9780262014045 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $33.26 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Popular Culture - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) - Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Group Shows |
Dewey: 709.040 |
LCCN: 2009045556 |
Series: Mit Press |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.9" W x 12.2" (2.15 lbs) 138 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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, the intensified palettes of Douglas Bourgeois and Sharon Ellis, and mixed-media and new media works by younger artists in the new millennium. Although the term psychedelic was coined to describe hallucinatory experiences produced by drugs used psychotherapeutically, the story these images tell is about the influence of psychedelic culture on the art world--not necessarily the influence of drugs. As contemporary art evolved into a diverse and pluralistic discipline, the psychedelic evolved into a language of color and light. In Psychedelic, more than seventy-five vivid color images chart this development, exploring the art chronologically, from early Op Art through recent work using digital technology. The book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art, includes three essays that set the works in historical and cultural context. Artists include Essays by Copublished with the San Antonio Museum of Art |
Contributor Bio(s): Rubin, David: - David S. Rubin is The Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. |