Summer of Love

[Dave Monroe]

Grunenberg, Christoph and Jonathan Harris, eds.
   Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and
   Counterculture in the 1960s.  Liverpool: Liverpool
UP
   + Tate Liverpool, 2005.

Though more than a generation has passed since the
revolutionary fervor of the Summer of Love of 1967,
the 1960s in many ways seem with us still. From
recurring debates over the war in Vietnam to the
perpetually appealing music of the Beatles and the
Rolling Stone to the concern about youth drug use, the
legacy of the 1960s is ubiquitous in contemporary
life. The Summer of Love brings together an impressive
group of historians, artists, and cultural critics to
present a rich and varied interpretation of this
seminal decade and its continuing influence on
politics, society, and culture. 

The Summer of Love, which accompanies an exhibition at
Tate Liverpool, pays particular attention to the
wildly creative psychedelic art of the era. Perceptive
essays on psychedelic comics, graphic design and
typography, light shows, and film successfully rescue
psychedelic art from the fog of nostalgia and unjust
critical neglect. Distinguished contributors also
explore the role of 1960s fashion and architecture,
and they consider anew the central influence of
hallucinogenic drugs on the art of the era. Running
throughout the essays are the elements of epochal
change—from sexual liberation to student
revolutions—that still form the backdrop of our
collective consciousness of the 1960s. 

An incisive collection of writings on all aspects of
1960s art and culture, tempered by time and critical
distance, The Summer of Love will be indispensable for
those who wish they had been there—or for those who
were, but can't remember it. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
 
1. Introduction, "Abstraction and Empathy: Psychedelic
Distortion and the Meanings of the 1960s" by Jonathan
Harris
 
2. "Economy, Society, and Culture in 1960s Britain:
Contexts and Conditions for Psychedelic Art" by Stuart
Laing
 
3. "The Social and (Counter-) Cultural 1960s in the
USA, Transatlantically" by George McKay
 
4. "Spontaneous Underground: An Introduction to London
Psychedelic Scenes, 1965-68" by Andrew Wilson
 
5. "'The Summer of Love' in Performance and Sgt.
Pepper" by Nannette Aldred
 
6. "Voices Green and Purple: Psychedelic Bad Craziness
and the Revenge of the Avant-Garde" by Stweart Home
 
7. "Laboratories of Light: Psychedelic Light Shows" by
Edwin Pouncey
 
8. "'I never stopped loving the light': Joshua White
and the Joshua Light Show" by Edwin Pouncey
 
9. "From the 'Ocular Harpsichord' to the
'Sonchromatoscope': The Idea of Colour Music and
Attempts to Realize it" by Barbara Kienscherf
 
10. "Clothing the Cosmic Counterculture: Fashion and
Psychedelia" by Cally Blackman
 
11. "The Urban Trip: New York's Psychedelic Moment" by
Carlo McCormick
 
12. "'My Mind Split Open': Andy Warhol's Exploding
Plastic Inevitable" by Branden W. Joseph
 
13. "Psychedelic Liverpool?" by Jon Murden
 
14. "Hyper-Optical and Kinetic Stimulation,
'Happenings' and Films in France" by Matthieu Poirier
 
15. "Mapping San Francisco 1965-1967: Roots and
Florescence of the San Francisco Counterculture" by
Walter Medeiros
 
16. "Psychedelicacies: Psychedelia and its Legacies"
by Glenn O'Brien
 
17. "A Psychedelic Bibliography" by Christoph
Grunenberg and Darren Pih

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