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Top 10 Best "1960s" Books
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The 1960sEdward J. RiellyBooks |
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PsychedelicDavid S. Rubin1960s |
Psychedelic 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 thi... |
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America Divided Maurice Isserman
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The SixtiesTodd GitlinBooks |
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The Age of Great DreamsDavid FarberBooks |
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The Times Were a Changin' Debi Unger
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The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures) David Farber
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1960sNick YappBooks |
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1960s Fashion PrintMarnie FoggBooks |
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Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s Ivan Vartanian
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The Sixties Robert Altman
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The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool Chris Strodder
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