
Summer of Love
Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2017
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-520-29482-0 (ISBN)
Description
Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love. This book explores, through essays and a succession of thematic plates, the visual and material cultures of a generation searching for personal fulfillment and social change. Presenting key cultural artifacts of the time, Summer of Love introduces and explores the events and experiences that today define this dynamic era. With essays by Victoria Binder, Dennis McNally, and Joel Selvin. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco: April 8-August 20, 2017
Reviews / Votes
"Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll does a remarkable job conveying both the ideas and the content of an exhibition many of us will never see. Its precision focus on one moment in one city in American history is the book's greatest strength." * PopMatters * "The beautifully illustrated and very readable work provides the social, cultural, and political background that laid the era's foundation." * Library Journal *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
225 color photographs and 25 b
Dimensions
Height: 307 mm
Width: 248 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
2216 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29482-0 (9780520294820)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jill D'Alessandro is curator of the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is the author of Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave and contributed to Lines on the Horizon: Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection. Colleen Terry is assistant curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is the author of Artful Animals and a contributor to Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition and Ed Ruscha and the Great American West.
Content
foreword
map
essays
not past at all
dennis mcnally
selling san francisco's sound
colleen terry
stitching a new paradigm
jill d 'alessandro
if you're going to san francisco
joel selvin
catalogue and more
(sittin' on) the dock of the bay
a trip without a ticket
the gathering of the tribes
love and haight
the poster shop
feed your head
the music never stopped
what are we fighting for?
san francisco psychedelic
rock posters
victoria binder
the sixties in san francisco
van meter
time line
selected bibliography
checklist
index
acknowledgments
picture credits
contributors
map
essays
not past at all
dennis mcnally
selling san francisco's sound
colleen terry
stitching a new paradigm
jill d 'alessandro
if you're going to san francisco
joel selvin
catalogue and more
(sittin' on) the dock of the bay
a trip without a ticket
the gathering of the tribes
love and haight
the poster shop
feed your head
the music never stopped
what are we fighting for?
san francisco psychedelic
rock posters
victoria binder
the sixties in san francisco
van meter
time line
selected bibliography
checklist
index
acknowledgments
picture credits
contributors