Johannesson Sture ^ (Sternberg Press): édition anglaise - Hardcover

Lars Bang Larsen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 097111935X ISBN 13: 9780971119352

Publisher: Sternberg Press, 2002

Synopsis

"When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend"

In the sixties, Sture Johannesson's psychedelic posters upset both the Swedish authorities and the "serious" left wing with their delirious drug politics. His pioneering body of work developed throughout the seventies and eighties, capturing the zeitgeist of three decades. More importantly, Johannesson's posters, happenings, and experiments with new media - electronic as well as narcotic-demonstrated that the way authority programs society is more hallucinatory than any drug could ever be.

This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the "high" underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.

Co-published with NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art

Contributors
Lars Bang Larsen and Sture Johannesson

About this title

About the Author:

Lars Bang Larsen is an art historian and international curator based in Barcelona and Copenhagen. His books include The Model: Palle Nielsen's A Model for a Qualitative Society and, with Søren Andreasen, The Critical Mass of Mediation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 097111935X
• ISBN 13: 9780971119352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 104