#psychedelic posters

[stone-cold-groove]

Be all you can be. Read. Vintage poster promoting National Library Week. Peter Max, artist - 1969.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

EVERYBODY'S GONE SURFIN' -- BUTTHOLE SURFIN' IN TEX-ASS '91.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 889x1319 -- Spotlight on a concert poster design for punk bands BUTTHOLE SURFERS, PIGFACE, and BAD LIVERS, performing live at the Unicorn in Houston, Texas, on April 12, 1991 -- ON THIS DAY! On this day thirty-three years ago.

Source: https://visiblevibrations.com/product/butthole-surfers-concert-poster-kozik-houston-1991.

[mudwerks]

(via Bonnie MacLean, Psychedelic Poster Artist, Is Dead at 80 - The New York Times)

Bonnie MacLean, shown in a self-portrait, was one of the main creators of psychedelic posters in San Francisco in the 1960s and ’70s, most of them promoting concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium.

[billsarchives]

"The Messenger" by SÄTTY printed over another Sätty collage of classical illustration of two nude women and child. Produced by Celestial Arts (CA14) probably created 1970. Orbit Graphic Arts, a poster printing company based out of San Francisco during the 1960s/1970s, distributed this overprinting by Sätty who was famous for creating mind-blowing and now highly collectible collages, having been exhibited at the MoMA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Art and several other major museums. https://www.etsy.com/shop/BillsArchives

[rjzimmerman]

Usually when I see a psychedelic poster from the 1960′s, I barely give it a glance. But this one, from the New York Times, snatched my attention today, probably because of my mood today of wanting to avoid thinking about all the bad shit reported in the media lately.

The caption to the poster in today’s story reads:

This Fillmore poster, which Bonnie MacLean often identified as her favorite, was included in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2007.D.King Gallery, Berkeley, Calif.

The rest of the short story reads:

One woman, the artist Bonnie MacLean, helped define the psychedelic scene — though she said she never took hallucinogens — with her colorful posters for rock shows in San Francisco.

Another, Alice Schenker, helped spread the counterculture by selling posters, comics and art prints at the Telegraph Avenue Print Mint, which she founded in 1965 with her late husband, Don Schenker.

Perhaps in some kind of cosmic coincidence, both died recently — Ms. Schenker at 88, according to this Berkeleyside obituary, and Ms. MacLean at 80, my colleague reported.

[fashionbooksmilano]

The art of Peter Max

Charles A.Riley II

Harry N. Abrams , New York 2002, 240 pages,  Over 350 color plates

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A comprehensive retrospective illustrates the artist's life and prolific career as reflected in his works and includes 350 full-color images, many previously unpublished.

Pop artist Max, like his contemporary Andy Warhol, had his artistic way with iconic figures: while Warhol captured Marilyn and Liz in Day-Glo glory, Max caught the visages of the Statue of Liberty, the Mona Lisa and George Washington in vibrant Technicolor (they both took a turn with Mick Jagger). But Max is the softer character in both art and life: his canvases are happier, swirlier, and he's a lot less hip. Perhaps it's his unabashed patriotism and his thorough endorsement by the establishment (though not necessarily the art world establishment). Max has painted Lady Liberty on the White House lawn, been named the official artist for the Grammys, the United Nations Earth Summit and five Superbowls, and had his paintings grace the covers of People, U.S. News & World Report and Manhattan's Yellow Pages-twice. This big, bright coffee table book shows Max's work in all of its wild energy, from his psychedelic posters (dorm room favorites) to his more recent forays into abstraction. Riley's accompanying text is appropriately heavy on the biographical detail and light on any high-falutin' art criticism, an approach perfectly appropriate for a volume celebrating one of history's most buoyantly middlebrow and accessible artists.

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[stone-cold-groove]

Vintage movie poster for the hippie-themed exploitation film, Revolution - 1968.

[stone-cold-groove]

All 5 velvet-flocked posters only $2. Ad for Encore House’s velvet-flocked black light posters - 1978.