OT: Here comes the 60's with their pictures
It's been awhile since I last published my highly selective tale of visual art off the beaten track and into the blue. Here's my latest in this arty series of low/high brow. It's an art tale. The lines of time in art that jump ahead and behind and into the future are fuzzy because they are art lines which don't need to be factual. Thank god. So they grow underground and above ground. I jump between the up and under because you see they often merge and are from the same place. All of these artists are thieves of time.
This mythical art I speak of is alive and well and will continue as long as humans have paint, spray cans, silk screens, crow quill pens, magic markers, charcoal, lead or any at hand means to create draw and continue create art the outside the gates. Kilroy is alive now, then, and will be as long as people are still around. Regardless of technology artists will both low tech and high tech get it out there Always have always will.
Some got it however and some do not as far as arting goes. So I'll hit the ones in the '60-'70 era that in my highly subjective perspective trip the light fantastic.
War what it is good for?
Posters about peace from the 60's. Pictures speak louder then words
Peter Max
Love
Tomi Ungerer "It’s so important to make your own little specks of peace around you. It’s a matter of being an idiot."
Push Pin Studio's Seymore Chwast from 1964.
Zap Comix
It got my artistic attention
Oh Boy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Com
#1 was published in San Francisco in late 1968. It featured the work of satirical cartoonist Robert Crumb
.....After the success of the first issue, Crumb opened the pages of Zap to several other artists, including S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, "Spain" Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, and two artists with reputations as psychedelic poster designers, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin. This stable of artists, along with Crumb, remained mostly constant throughout the history of Zap,
I believe Robert Crumb started it. Only !2 issues? That can't be right for a comic book that that blew my mind, yea, yea. Now Robert Crumb is an offensive cartoon man. I could not find one image of his other then this that did not offend. Other then this.
Lately it occurs to me ....
So time to go to bed. Next up sooner then later the artists who Zapped starring Rick Griffen , Victor Morocso and others. After that we hit the god awful artwise 70's. Oh wait the Brits will hit the floor and save us all from balloon type and airbruching. See you people Next week. Meanwhile ..
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I have a gallery opening poster of LOVE, stacked with slanted O
May 1966, Robert Indiana, a good Hoosier. My first art purchase.
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Oh, wow!
Hippy porn!
Our village and town are so small that we don't have a village idiot or a town drunk. Nope, we all take turns.
That "invest Your Son" poster reminded me of Gracie's great line
"War's good business
So give your son.
But I'd rather have my country die for me."
Rejoyce from Bathing at Baxter's
Speaking of Baxter's, that's pretty good 60s cover art.
Much can be said of the mid-'60s to mid-'70s
But one thing one must be admitted: We produced some GREAT music (from The Beatles forward) and art of all kinds flourished. Over half a century later, Sir Paul McCartney is still creating music, still performing. Ringo Starr also has his own band, IIRC, but he is not prolific in multiple art forms. If they were still alive, George Harrison and John Lennon would likely also still be creating music and art. The effects of The Beatles' music still echoes through the decades.
Besides the reality of being forced to murder our fellow human beings for no good reason, it's what made so many of us in the Baby Boomer generation hate war. We lost high school chums in that horror (I certainly did, some were a grade below or above me in high school, and since it is an ultra-small community, we all mourned), and we know/knew people who were drafted into that conflict without knowing WHY they had to go fight there. The Vietnamese certainly had never done anything to us.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute ..., where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference. — President John F. Kennedy, Houston, TX, 12 September 1960
Such a powerful video, NonnyO.
I agree with everything in it. I also agree with your comment. I, too, lost pals in the horror of the Vietnam War. I protested that war alongside my fellow hippie brothers and sisters. It's incomprehensible to me that no one protests the wars we are now involved with, except we have no draft, so no one's life is at stake unless they sign up. They keep us at slave wages and ship our jobs overseas so the young see the military as a job opening. It sickens me. America sickens me, right now.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
A crap job market is the best recruiting tool for our
all volunteer military. And an all volunteer military keeps our better informed people complacent since there's no danger of them being sent off to war without their consent; therefore, no student anti-war protests. That's how TPTB control the rest of us. So evil!
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Every American High School Graduation
calls out the graduates who have enlisted. They make a big fucking deal of sending a newly graduated kid to war.
They don't bother to share the news of the student's death though.
Big fanfare for when they go - NOTHING when they come back... less when they don't.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Not always.
When Granholm was governor of Michigan, whenever someone from Michigan died in Iraq/Afhanistan, the state flag flew at half staff.
And when a kid from my parent's little community in the western UP was killed, his funeral was a BFD. The funeral procession went thru several small towns & stopped traffic on the highway. My parents report that since that kid died very few kids join up anymore, and this is a community where the mine closed, the paper mill closed, there are no jobs for kids and they can't afford college (there's actually a good one there)
I didn't know how to reply
it's not like I can say, "good to hear" on something so tragic as losing another to war. But it's good that the loss was shared and then made some think. There's no real good reply.
But as I tried to figure a reply my husband said, "not always, very true. but they don't do that for every kid. Not always but not every - which is probably worse." Each child lost to this war should stop all traffic.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
These wars, not this war, DJ.
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The more things change, the more they remain the same...
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I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Ya know? If you sang 1---2---3 many of age could sing the rest.
And at least at Woodstock there was not a plastic water bottle fixation. I missed it.
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I think it's because of the DFH's
that they decided they had to dumb down America.
Ours was the first generation where large numbers of us went to college. Educated people, inquiring minds are more likely to see behind the curtain, to call things out.
Let's hope ours isn't the last generation.
Good morning.
Not feeling that great today. Bad dreams last night.
I'm going to try to make it a productive day.
Blame it on a full moon. I have clerestory windows,
and being awakened at 2 AM by moonlight (reflection) makes me awake and unsettled. I stayed up until the moon moved W.
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shame on the moon
tripping down memory lane
Was the fabulous furry freak brothers a Zap creation? Oh, and the crows, max headly...
chuckles
No, the Freak Bros. were from Rip Off Press and Gilbert Shelton.
https://ripoffpress.com/products/books/fabulous-furry-freak-brothers/fab...
http://www.powells.com/SearchResults?kw=title:gilbert%20shelton
thanks lotli
used to get those comix at the local head shop. Guess they have all blended into a mental smoothie by now.
Freaknet is alive
http://freaknet.org.uk/pages01/p01/wm01.html
From my ancient cartoon clippings, Fat Freddy's Cat:
Thanks
Cheech Wizard, baby!
And Junkwaffel. Vaughn Bode' is missed....
And my absolute favorite. I have this framed somewhere, and it hung on my office wall for many, many years:
1960 meets 2010
My daughter holding up the sign I first saw when I was in kindergarten. She held this sign for many years at a local anti-war vigil.
The wars started when she was 8 and they haven't stopped.
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Thanks, shaz, one of my faves was a fake bomb/fallout shelter
poster with text indicating that it was a place to shelter from police riots.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Foolbert Sturgeon (Frank Stack), “The New Adventures of Jesus”
https://ripoffpress.com/tags/foolbert-sturgeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stack
good stuff
More! More! ; )
Crumb, he is still "offensive cartoon man." Below are a couple he drew after the Hebdo massacre. He says there is nothing in the US cartoon tradition similar to Hebdo other than your mentioned "underground comics, back in the 70s."