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"The Psychedelic Revolution: Turning on the Art Trip" (2pp.), in ARTS MAGAZINE Vol. 41, #1 (NY: November 1966).
A short survey of "the psychedelic 'revolution' in the visual arts" by Jud Yalkut, the resident filmmaker at the USCO commune in Garnerville, in which he refers to the recent Life magazine feature and mentions Marshall McLuhan, Timothy Leary, Tony Conrad, Jordan Belson, Acid Tests, Expanded Cinema, the Dreamachine (Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville), and William Burroughs.
Also: Al Hansen on the recent Destruction in Art Symposium in London, in which he participated (2pp., 3 photos); Lawrence Alloway on taboo and 'hipster' symbolism in the films of Roger Corman; Robert Smithson: "Quasi-Infinities and the Waning of Space" (4pp.); Charles Mingus on "America's only contribution to music - Jazz"; Sol LeWitt on New York architecture; Allon Schoener on the East Village scene (The Fugs); Mel Bochner on the obsolescence of painting as an art form; Lil Picard on "The Explosive fusion of Theater and Engineering" at the Armory Festival (Cage, Rauschenberg, Rainer et al), and 'the Psychedelics' (The Velvet Underground at the Dom, and Leary and USCO at the Village Theater); Nicolas Calas on "Vagabonds and Dandies"; Rolf-Gunter Dienst; more.
Faint spotting to front cover; slight wear at tail of spine; o/w Very Good.
