In _Psychedelia and Other Colours_, 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 even 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. _Psychedelia and Other Colours
_documents these utopian reverberations - and the dark side of their
moon - in a perfect portrait.
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ISBN
9780571282753
Publisert
2015
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Faber & Faber
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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