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Sixties Art, Fashion, Design & Photography

THE ART OF THE FILLMORE: The Poster Series 1966-1971 - Legendary impresario Bill Graham commissioned posters to promote the concerts he was putting on at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The artists created vivid, irreverent banners that reflected their own sense of poetics, style, and wit. What resulted was a brand-new art form. These posters now occupy a place in art history while surviving as treasured artifacts of rock archaeology.

HIGH ART: A History of the Psychedelic Poster - High Art explores both the creation of psychedelia and the imagery born of the Sixties psychedelic poster art movement. It covers the Avalon and Fillmore ballrooms, the UFO Club in London and features leading American artists, and profiles of British artists as well as the collectors' experience.

ROLLING STONE: The Illustrated Portraits - Award-winning art director Fred Woodward has has brought together a who's who of the illustration world, in this collection of the best paintings, caricatures, and drawings ever to grace the pages of Rolling Stone. Snippets of interviews with both the subjects and the artists illuminate the subjective and interpretive process of illustration.

WOODSTOCK DREAM - Elliott Landy, official Woodstock photographer, captured the spirit of the American underground of the late Sixties, dedicating himself to the work and the protagonists of rock.

LINDA McCARTNEY’S SIXTIES: Portrait of an Era - A personal album of intimate photographs captures the lives and times of rock legends of the 1960s, including Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, the Grateful Dead, and many others.

THE ART OF ROCK: Posters from Presley to Punk -This unique compilation of more than 1,500 rock concert posters from the 1950s through today reproduces, in full color, all of the stunning, original, and outrageous artwork.

CROSSROADS: The Experience Music Project Collection - This book is a very well crafted historical review of popular music frequently referred to as Rock and Roll. From its early roots to its latest manifestations, this book covers the gamut. As such it is a companion piece to the Experience Music Project Museum in Seattle, and if you can't get to Seattle, this book would at least give you a flavor of what awaits you there. Well written, with beautiful art and photos from electric music roots in 1935 through today. It succeeds in connecting the lineage in words and pictures. Highly recommended.

THE SIXTIES - A 30-year collaboration between photographer Richard Avedon and writer Doon Arbus, (daughter of photographer Diane) whose images and words combine in this volume to create a compelling portrait of one of the 20th century's most tumultuous decades.This large book is filled with a cacophony of Yippies, Black Panthers, Weathermen, Hare Krishnas, Andy Warhol Factory Superstars, pop artists, rock musicians, astronauts, pacifists, politicians and more.

100 BEST ALBUM COVERS - From the psychedelia of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's to the quirky social commentary of Nirvana's Nevermind, some of the most memorable, groundbreaking images of the last five decades have graced the covers of rock albums. DK's 100 Best Album Covers presents the cream of the cover crop, chosen by legendary designer Storm Thorgerson (of Hipgnosis).

EXOTIQUARIUM: Album Art from the Space Age -The definitive account of a curious and surreal chapter in American musical history. An irresistible book. I wish it was a larger book ..so many ideas....so little time.

THE GOLDEN AGE OF MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION: The Sixties and Seventies - No description or reviews are available at this time.

GRAPHIC AGITATION: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties - The global use of graphics for propaganda and protest is surveyed in this vibrant album. The 300 color photographs reproducing posters, billboards, ads, T-shirts and graffiti occasionally portray the graphic voice of the establishment, but mostly feature dissent and agitation on behalf of human rights, environmentalism, anti-war protest, feminism, sexual politics, etc.

OP TO POP: Furniture of the 1960s - Whether it's a lipstick-red love seat shaped like Marilyn Monroe's lips, a bean bag chair, or a "domestic capsule unit," 1960s furniture still has the power to startle and delight. In Op to Pop, Cara Greenberg takes on this little-explored but exciting era of furniture design, providing original, readable scholarship that places '60s furnishings in a cultural context and helps sort the good from the fad.

THE SIXTIES: Decade of Design Revolution - The 1960s were definitive in terms of innovation and revolution. Nowhere is this more apparent than in that decade's material artifacts. Good design was everywhere; bold, playful, intelligent and fun. Scholarly, yet casual writing accompanied by plenty of full-color illustrations make this a must for both your coffee table and 20th century design library.

EVERYDAY FASHIONS OF THE SIXTIES AS PICTURED IN SEARS CATALOGS - There is often a disparity between how we remember the Sixties & how they really were. I remember that they looked more like what's in this book: Jackie Kennedy, Patty Duke, Leslie Gore, Carnaby Street & San Francisco filtered through Sears & delivered to middle class America. Something important was happening in women's fashions. Clothes became more comfortable & hair styles more simple, if that's what one chose. But the choice was there. That transition is captured by these amusing & thought-provoking catalogue pages.

THE RUDI GERNREICH BOOK - Rudi Gernreich was a maverick and a visionary. His designs were so advanced, even for the wild-child sixties, that they still seem fresh. In fact, I recognized many current trends in these photos. Lavishly illustrated, with vintage publicity and advertising photos by William Claxton, as taken throughout the sixties. The book opens with an overview of Gernreich's career, and a really comprehensive essay about his most famous designs (such as the topless bathing suit).

DECORATIVE ART 1960s - This book offers a glimpse into the design world of the 1960s like no other. Many vintage photos showing furniture in authentic room settings. Each section, Glass, Ceramics, Lighting, Textiles and Furniture, show the reader objects that are rarely seen anywhere else.

THE 60'S: Mods & Hippies - A fast-paced romp through the fashions of the Sixties, this book is full of bold, full-color photographs. The authors include the extremes as well as the changing wardrobes of everyday people. Mods and hippies dominate with miniskirts, Eastern influences, and art as fashion included. Fashion's influences on world events, entertainment, cultures, and technology are explored, as are the ways in which styles were influenced by these forces.

GREAT FASHION DESIGNS OF THE SIXTIES: Paper Dolls in Full Color - No description or reviews are available at this time.

FLOWER POWER: Prints from the 1960s - No description or reviews are available at this time.

FREEHAND: The Art of Stanley Mouse -This book reflects on Stanley's artwork both in the rock and roll arena as well as work he has performed in other areas. Some of his best unknown works are present here, and if you like Stanley's work, then this book is for you! A definitive catalog of greatness.

L.A. POP IN THE SIXTIES - No description or reviews are available at this time.

PSYCHEDELIC DECADENCE: Sex, Drugs, Low-Art in Sixties & Seventies Britain - No description or reviews are available at this time.

Gonzo, The Art - Steadman takes the obscene to the edge with his book "Gonzo: The Art." He recounts his artistic maturation from his drawings for Hunter S. Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadant and Depraved" to his own new ideas on what gonzo is. He includes a portrait of his vision of Thompson’s parents, riding in the Big Red Shark. All in all, Steadman is an affront to your senses and will throw your world for a loop. Enjoy the ride!!

THE R. CRUMB COFFEE TABLE ART BOOK - Robert Crumb, world-famous illustrator and definite pervert, got his start in the underground comics scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book is a collection of his best work from the last 50 years (it's got kids stuff, too, which is pretty fascinating). The volume is a welcome reminder that, screwed up as Crumb may be, he's also a tremendously talented, utterly original artist.

COMPLETE CRUMB: Mr Sixties - Mr. Sixties' features the creme de la Crumb, executed while he was still a wide-eyed rube, lost in the hubbub of Haight-Ashbury and the Summer of Love. Featuring lots of psychedelia, Crumb's work in 'The East Village Other', 'Yarrowstalks' and the ground-breaking 'ZAP Comix' #0 & 1 immediately appealed to the anti-Establishment Flower Children.

Sixties Design - During the decade many associate with the Beatles, hippies, and flower power, designers in Europe, Asia, and the Americas were fundamentally rethinking modernist principles. Sixties Design is a documentation and analysis of that era during which belief in modernist design began to crumble. If you like all things mod, space age and groovy, this book is for you. The author takes an all encompassing look at interior design, textiles, art, furniture, advertising and architecture.

EARTHWORKS: Art & Landscape of the Sixties -Suzaan Boettger offers the first comprehensive history of the Earthworks movement in the United States, providing a fascinating and in-depth analysis of the monumental forms that initiated the broader genre of Land Art. Examining the art, the artists, their dealers and proponents, Boettger interprets Earthworks as a manifestation both of artists' personal stories and of the late 1960s social and political tumult.

THE SIXTIES: Art Scene in London - No description or reviews are available at this time.

THE RISE OF THE SIXTIES: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent - This book describes in detail the many varied paths that visual artists explored during the 60's, a time of great political, cultural, and artistic ferment. The subtitle of the book, "American and European Art in the Era of Dissent," reflects Crow's observation that the experimental art of the period reflected 60's political dissent. He notes that 60's art, setting itself up as an alternative to an existing "genteel, snobbish, and unadventurous art culture," deliberately mocks mainstream values, and tends to be inaccessible to ordinary viewers.