Psychedelia and other colours
Chapman, Rob2015
Book
In the summer of 1965 the informal parties that Ken Kesey was holding at his house in Palo Alto California were about to evolve into what became known as the Acid Tests. These spontaneous anarchic gatherings spread their tentacles far and wide until an entire generation seemed to be under their spell. Fifty years on from the Merry Pranksters multimedia mayhem, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco long before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium. In the UK, he documents an entirely different history, and one that has never been told before. It has its roots in fairy tales and fairgrounds, the music hall and the dead of Flanders fields, in the Festival of Britain and that peculiarly British strand of surrealism that culminated in the Magical Mystery Tour. Sitars and Sergeant Pepper, surfadelica and the Soft Machine, light shows and love - ins - the mind-expanding effects of acid were to redefine popular culture as we know it. It's a story that you think you know, but no one has laid out the narrative quite like this before. Chapman documents psychedelia's utopian reverberations - and the dark side of its moon - in a shimmering day-glo portrait where the sublime, the sinister and the just plain silly co-exist in imperfect harmony.
Main title:
Psychedelia and other colours / by Rob Chapman.
Author:
Chapman, Rob, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2015.
Collation:
x, 638 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.To Make This Trivial World Sublime -- PSYCHEDELIA USA -- 2.Painting with Light -- 3.The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls -- 4.The Savant-Garde: Surfadelica, Girl Groups and Garage Land -- 5.California Dreaming -- 6.Utopians and Utopiates -- 7.I Am the Black Gold of the Sun -- 8.Concentration Moon: The Dark Side of Psych -- PSYCHEDELIA UK -- 9.You Get a Tan from Standing in the English Rain -- 10.The Soft Machine: Unfunky Cerebral Caterwauling, the Romilar Army and All the Wood that Doesn't Look Like Fish -- 11.The Pink Floyd: The Art-School Dance and the Hexagram Shuffle -- 12.Smashed Blocked: Art-Pop Renegades and the R&B Mutations -- 13.`He's Been Travelling Everywhere': Innuendo, Euphemism and the Lucy Effect -- 14.The Psychedelic Music Hall -- 15.The Penny Arcadia -- 16.Infantasia: Kinder Psych and Toytown Pop -- 17.Sitar Pop, Raga Rock and the Exotic Others -- AFTERGLOW (WHICH DREAMED IT?) -- 18.Gauche Riders in the Sky: Kitsch Psych, Part-Time Paradise People and the Ersatz of Suchness -- 19.Paint America Love.
ISBN:
9780571282005 (hardback)0571282008 (hardback)97805712820050571282008
Dewey class:
781.66097309046781.66 781.66
LC class:
ML3534.3
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
217327
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | -Art and Culture | ARTS 781.66 CHAP | Available |