200 Trips from the Counterculture
Graphics and Stories from the Underground Press Syndicate
Jean-François Bizot
Foreword by Barry Miles
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Large format paperback!
| ‘Excellent … captures the best of this historical moment … get the beanbag out and enjoy the world of free love and LSD’ | | – Blueprint |
| ‘A mind-expanding high for your seasonal lows’ | | – The Sunday Times |
‘A remarkable compilation …
a smart, funny potted history … it’s also a fine document of the incredible political and cultural upheaval of which peace-
and-love was just one facet’ | | – ArtReview |
Taking its inspiration from the Beatniks and The Village Voice the hippie-era youth culture underground press documented everything from politics and art to film and fashion – with a sizeable leavening of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll.
The ideas unleashed in these now vintage publications continue to reverberate through society and influence public discourse and graphic design in the form of today's 'zines' and blogs. Among the figures whose work appears in these pages are Hunter S. Thompson, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ken Kesey, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman – to name only a few.
Among the publications featured here are The Los Angeles Free Press (persecuted by the Nixon-era FBI for its antiwar views), The East Village Other (the first to adopt a psychedelic layout), Interview (founded by Andy Warhol and the first to feature homoerotic imagery), The Berkeley Barb (famous for one cover showing a young man with a chain around his mind), The San Francisco Oracle (which featured the writing of Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti) and Fifth Estate (which coined the phrase 'all isms are was-isms').
Jean-Francois Bizot came of age in the 1960s. He founded the French underground magazine Actuel in 1970. Barry Miles was a central figure of 'sixties counterculture. He is the author of many books, including The Beat Hotel, Ginsberg: A Biography and The Beatles Diary. He was a contributor to I Want to Take You Higher, the Rock Music Hall of Fame's psychedelic music chronicle.
Also of interest:
Vietnam Zippos
Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500286051 | | ISBN-13 978-0500286050 | | | | 34.0 x 22.5 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 256pp | | Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout | | First published 2006 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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