Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

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Hippie Modernism examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the unconventional experiments that challenged societal norms even as proposing new sorts of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter-design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the unconventional architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus-Rucker-Co and ONYX; the installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills, Mark Boyle, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz and The Whole Earth Catalog; books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and a lot more.
While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is widely recognized, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. On this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North The usa; the print revolution within the graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new kinds of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including: Gerd Stern of USCO; Ken Isaacs; Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co; Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX; Franco Raggi of Global Tools; Tony Martin; Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City; in addition to new scholarly writings, this book explores the conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

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