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Summer of Love

Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll

Jill D'Alessandro editor Colleen Terry editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:26th May '17

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Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love. This book explores, through essays and a succession of thematic plates, the visual and material cultures of a generation searching for personal fulfillment and social change. Presenting key cultural artifacts of the time, Summer of Love introduces and explores the events and experiences that today define this dynamic era. With essays by Victoria Binder, Dennis McNally, and Joel Selvin. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco: April 8-August 20, 2017

"Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock and Roll does a remarkable job conveying both the ideas and the content of an exhibition many of us will never see. Its precision focus on one moment in one city in American history is the book’s greatest strength." * PopMatters *
"The beautifully illustrated and very readable work provides the social, cultural, and political background that laid the era’s foundation." * Library Journal *

ISBN: 9780520294820

Dimensions: 298mm x 241mm x 30mm

Weight: 2223g

344 pages