Psychedelic Sex: VA - Hardcover

Eric Godtland; Paul Krassner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3822825581 ISBN 13: 9783822825587

Publisher: TASCHEN Gmbh, 2015

Synopsis

Take a trip back to 1970 with Dian Hanson and meet the grooviest flower power hotties in all hippiedom. With natural free spirits meeting mind-bending graphics, these hilarious images recall a brief golden age of publishing, when men's magazines tried to recreate the wonders of young lust on LSD.

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Review:

"A hyper-vivid look back at the 1960s and early 1970s... Psychedelic Sex comments on nearly every curve and contour of American culture: money, power, sex, race, advertising, religion, technology, youth culture, freedom, and individual liberty."

"...Psychedelic Sex could be described as coffee table porn. It is also a tribute to psychedelic art, with its vivid, clashing colours and experimental graphics. With its vivid lime green and purple zig-zag cover, the book is beautifully presented. Its modern design uses bright, clashing colours that tastefully complement the era's radiant palette without being jarring."

About the Author:

Eric Godtland is a self-confessed compulsive collector. Working from his bases in the Haight-Ashbury and Potrero Hill districts of San Francisco, Eric obsesses over all things girly, Hawaiian, musical and modernist. When not lusting after "cool stuff," Eric manages musicians, bends technology to his will, writes, and begs for money. Paul Krassner was a founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies) in 1967 and a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. He produced The Realist, a magazine of social criticism, from 1958 to 1974, leading People magazine to name him "the father of the underground press". He is the author of 15 books; his most recent being In Praise of Indecency. Dian Hanson produced a variety of men's magazines from 1976 to 2001, including Juggs, Outlaw Biker and Leg Show, before becoming TASCHEN's Sexy Book editor. Her 60+ books for TASCHEN include The Art of Pin-up and Psychedelic Sex. She lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: TASCHEN Gmbh
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3822825581
• ISBN 13: 9783822825587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Dian Hanson