Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960sChristoph Grunenberg, Jonathan Harris, Jonathan P. Harris Liverpool University Press, 1 jan. 2005 - 383 pagina's Though more than a generation has passed since the revolutionary fervor of the Summer of Love of 1967, the 1960s in many ways seem with us still. From recurring debates over the war in Vietnam to the perpetually appealing music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone to the concern about youth drug use, the legacy of the 1960s is ubiquitous in contemporary life. The Summer of Love brings together an impressive group of historians, artists, and cultural critics to present a rich and varied interpretation of this seminal decade and its continuing influence on politics, society, and culture. The Summer of Love, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, pays particular attention to the wildly creative psychedelic art of the era. Perceptive essays on psychedelic comics, graphic design and typography, light shows, and film successfully rescue psychedelic art from the fog of nostalgia and unjust critical neglect. Distinguished contributors also explore the role of 1960s fashion and architecture, and they consider anew the central influence of hallucinogenic drugs on the art of the era. Running throughout the essays are the elements of epochal change—from sexual liberation to student revolutions—that still form the backdrop of our collective consciousness of the 1960s. An incisive collection of writings on all aspects of 1960s art and culture, tempered by time and critical distance, The Summer of Love will be indispensable for those who wish they had been there—or for those who were, but can't remember it. |
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Pagina 267 - Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices and furnished rooms, our railroad stations and our factories appeared to have us locked up hopelessly. Then came the film and burst this prison-world asunder by the dynamite of the tenth of a second, so that now, in the midst of its far-flung ruins and debris, we calmly and adventurously go traveling.
Pagina 55 - Many of the customers — their clothes, their hair-styles, their facial expressions all indicate — are living to a large extent in a myth-world compounded of a few simple elements which they take to be those of American life.
Pagina 49 - At the same time, they observed, "having learned from the movement to think radically about the personal worth and abilities of people whose role in society had gone unchallenged before, a lot of women in the movement have begun trying to apply those lessons to their own relations with men. Each of us probably has her own story of the various results.
Pagina 72 - A cardinal failure of all past revolutions has been the dissociation of liberation on the mass social level, ie, liberation of whole classes in economic and political terms, and liberation on the level of the individual and the concrete groups in which he is directly engaged. If we are to talk of revolution today our talk will be meaningless unless we effect some union between the macro-social and the micro-social, and between "inner reality
Pagina 115 - I would wish to emphasize that our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities, that many of us are only too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt the false realities, (p.
Pagina 253 - ... image. He had used the medium with the same effectiveness that Roosevelt had learned to achieve by radio. With TV, Kennedy found it natural to involve the nation in the office of the Presidency, both as an operation and as an image. TV reaches out for the corporate attributes of office. Potentially, it can transform the Presidency into a monarchic dynasty. A merely elective Presidency scarcely affords the depth of dedication and commitment demanded by the TV form. Even teachers on TV seem to...
Pagina 245 - I'm going to sit and watch the same thing I saw the night before, I don't want it to be essentially the same — I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.
Pagina 254 - It is a name for a spirit of inquiry that is leading in many different directions. It is cinema expanded to include many different projectors in the showing of one work. It is cinema expanded to include computer-generated images and the electronic manipulation of images on television. It is cinema expanded to the point at which the effect of film may be produced without the use of film at all.
Pagina 22 - Let us be on the side of those who want people to be free to live their own lives, to make their own mistakes, and to decide, in an adult way and provided they do not infringe the rights of others, the code by which they wish to live; and on the side too of experiment and brightness, of better buildings and better food, of better music (jazz as well as Bach) and better books, of fuller lives and greater freedom.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s Volume 8 van Liverpool University Press - Tate Liverpool Critical Forum Series Nummer 8 van Tate Gallery Liverpool critical forum |
| Redacteurs | Christoph Grunenberg, Jonathan Harris, Jonathan P. Harris |
| Bijdrager | Tate Gallery Liverpool |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Liverpool University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0853239290, 9780853239291 |
| Lengte | 383 pagina's |
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