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 Isaac Abrams, Albert Alvarez,
Richard Anuszkiewicz, Chio Aoshima, Kamrooz Aram, Jeremy Blake,
Richie Budd, Gordon Cheung, Judy Chicago, George Cisneros, James
Cobb, Steve DiBenedetto, Carole Feuerman, Jack Goldstein, Alex
Grey, Peter Halley, Al Held, Mark Hogensen, Constance Lowe, Erik
Parker, Ed Paschke, Lari Pittman, Ray Rapp, Deborah Remington,
Bridget Riley, Susie Rosmarin, Alex Rubio, Sterling Ruby, Julian
Stanczak, Jennifer Steinkamp, Frank Stella, Philip Taaffe, Barbara
Takenaga, Fred Tomaselli, Victor Vasarely, Michael Velliquette,
Andy Warhol, Robert Williams Essays by David S. Rubin, Robert C.
Morgan, Daniel Pinchbeck Copublished with the San Antonio Museum of
Art
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