70s Dreaming

Inspiration and aesthetics from the decade

[soviet-furries]

How the Goat Held the Earth (Как козлик землю держал)

Soyuzmultfilm, 1974

[70sscifiart]

As a kid, I spent quite a while staring at my family's tattered paperback cover for Lloyd Alexander's The High King, the fifth and final book in the high fantasy kid's book series 'Chronicles of Prydain.'

It's a visceral scene that pulls the viewer in like any cover should. Check out the fear in those bugging eyes. The ligaments of the knee. The ligaments on that Couldron-born zombie's neck. A lot of ligaments in this one! This image may have been my childhood introduction to the concept of ligaments.

The artist is the Belgian illustrator Jean-Léon Huens (1921-1984).

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[toutpetitlaplanete]

Vangel Naumovski - Lake Bride, 1973

[archivist-crow]

“Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow" - Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris performing on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

[wh0-is-lily]

Shelley Duvall, 1970s

[eroticlamb]

kate bush featured on top pop (tv), march 1978 ꩜

[lemon-pledge-laverne]

Jousting with a willow, a bull elk wins a garland for his trouble | National Geographic | June.1973

[zegalba]

Mayfair (1973) Ph. Barry Lategan

[vaticanrust]

Dolly Parton at the Porter Wagoner show at WSM-TV studios in Nashville.

[superseventies]

Annie Levine wears fashion by Halston, 1970s. 

[superseventies]

Twiggy on the cover of Vogue, December 1974.

[justseventeen]

August 1973. ‘What’s going over big in those good-looking school classics? Coats with neoclassic touches.’

[justseventeen]

August 1975. ‘Jumper joy’

[70s-dreaming]

Sugar Hill 1974 - part of the Blacksploitation genre that dominated 70s African American representation, these films were often the only source of media the black community could see themselves reflected in. Unfortunately these films perpetuate racist and outdated stereotypes, and relied heavily on violence and sex appeal in it’s storytelling.

[olddbutgoldd]

[justseventeen]

November 1973. ‘Rive Gauche… it’s an experience.’

[justseventeen]

October 1973. ‘Real romantics let longdresses set the mood.’