California Dreams: The Art of Stanley Mouse

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The first comprehensive compendium of works by one of the crucial groundbreaking pioneers of psychedelic poster art within the late ’60s, California Dreams is a career-spanning number of 240 pieces pages created over more than five decades of nonstop artistic inspiration. Stanley Mouse is, of course, absolute best known for the eye-popping and iconic posters, album covers and T-shirt designs he—incessantly in collaboration with Alton Kelley—made all through the hey-day of San Francisco’s counterculture renaissance and well into the 1970s. His influential work all through that era captured the color, fun, mystery, passion and creatively liberating experimentalism of the ones tumultuous times.

But this book also explores other sides of Mouse’s art, as well. Before taking Haight-Ashbury by storm, Mouse enjoyed tremendous success in his native Detroit detailing hot rods and airbrushing shirts and posters with whimsical drawings and paintings of crazy monsters and extreme cars. And more recently, along with satisfying ongoing demand for music-related commissions, Mouse has delved deeply into fine art, painting vivid landscapes and wonderfully evocative figurative pieces. Some of the works here have never been published before, and an added bonus is the inclusion of early versions of a number of of Mouse’s absolute best-known pieces, and a glimpse into his personal
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