Covering some of the more relevant subjects of the period, including Sex, Drugs, Rock ’N’ Roll, Earth Awareness, Black Power, and Astrology, Ultraviolet has been printed with fluorescent inks so that the pages will actually glow under black light. Daniel Donahue, an amateur historian of counterculture, has collected hundreds of vintage blacklight posters and chosen 69 of the best for this volume. "One of the most ubiquitous items of the 1960s and 1970s, the black light poster represented some of the most imaginative, colorful, and "out there" creativity of the period Ultraviolet is the first book to ever celebrate this alternative art form. See the show preview at for the address, phone number and map.Ultraviolet: 69 Classic Blacklight Posters from the Aquarian Age and Beyond is a 2009 book about blacklight posters by Daniel Donahue, with an introduction by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser of the band MGMT. The exhibition runs from February 15 to March 24, 2013, with open viewings on Saturday Feb 23, Mar 2, 9, 16 and 23, from 2-5pm (and by appointment on other dates and times). There will be a public reception with UV black light, period music, and refreshments on Saturday, February 16, from 6-8pm. Yet, many of these striking, iconic images are by anonymous creators yet to be identified. The exhibition features works by well-known artists like Robert Crumb and Charles Shultz, along with lesser known wizards of fantastical mindscapes like Robert Walker, George Goode, E. JOB Vintage Ad Blacklight Poster, 23 inches x 35 inches, standard sized.Printed in the USA with highly fluorescent inks and black flocking. "With its roots in cheap, mass-production and super-graphic scale, this branch of pop art has been largely overlooked for its powerful contribution to culture."ĭan Donahue, author of the 2009 compilation of blacklight art, Ultra Violet, comments, "The intense imagery found in blacklight art has been burned into the teenage psyche and continues on as outsider art still inspiring the modern design world."
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"In many ways, blacklight posters were precursors to the graphic experimentation of punk, new wave, skater and rave art," says gallery owner, John Goss. Vintage Black Light Poster - flocked blacklight poster - Retro Lion Blacklight print - authentic from 1975 (225) 44.00 FREE shipping Vintage 1970s Ralph Garcia Black Light Poster (783) 59.99 Led Zeppelin Black Light Poster Vintage Original 949 Funky Enterprise Smoke Shop Rock Band Poster Stairway To Heaven (40) 600. Part of the great graphic design revolution of the pop era, these posters mimicked the hallucinogenic effects of mind-expanding drugs and featured images culled from nostalgic turn-of-the-century graphics, Op Art, fairy tales, underground comics or popular cartoon characters incorporating themes of sexual liberation, social freedom and rebellion against the buttoned-up 1950s.
These exuberant, eye-popping images were created using fluorescent inks that were especially vivid in normal light (earning the nickname of "day-glo" colors), but appeared to magically electrify when viewed under ultra-violet lamps known commonly as black lights. Fifteen classic examples of trippy, hyper-graphic mindscapes are collected together for public viewing in one of the period, mid-century modern ranch homes that Palm Springs is famous for.ĭay-glo Dreamscapes: Vintage Blacklight Posters of the American Pop Era, is curated from the ephemeral, mass-produced art that swept "flower power" culture into teen-age bedrooms across the nation. Palm Springs, CA (PRWEB) January 30, 2013Ĭoncurrent with Palm Springs Modernism Week, Swank Modern Design presents an exhibition of American pop and psychedelic black light posters from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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