Greg Irons, S.Clay Wilson, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin

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SEX, ROCK & OPTICAL ILLUSIONS: VICTOR MOSCOSO, MASTER OF PSYCHEDELIC POSTERS & COMIX + YOU CALL THIS ART?! - A GREG IRONS RETROSPECTIVE + THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON + THE ART OF RICK GRIFFIN. The MOSCOSO volume is an oversized, hardcover gallery of posters, splash pages for Zap Comix and Moscoso's own one-shot comic books, a few of the artist's comics "stories," and sketches. Flouting conventional color complementation, Moscoso juxtaposed electrically bright, pure colors to produce illusory vibratory effects. Married to swirling letter shapes and imagery borrowed from nineteenth-century experimental photography and cinematography, his color storms became the standard for all other psychedelic art. It helped that he was an ace draftsman, especially when he switched from posters to comics, but his extremely plastic visual imagination is his greatest asset. Few other artists of any period have produced work of similar formal fascination. The GREG IRONS tome is a hefty softcover that spans his whole artistic career, from his earliest dance posters, to his ground breaking science fiction and horror comix, to his innovative and colorful tattoo art. Irons was one of the elite among posters artists who worked for Bill Graham's Fillmore Ballroom in San Francisco during the Age of Aquarius, designing posters for Chuck Berry, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, and Paul Butterfield. YOU CALL THIS ART?! reprints his finest psychedelic posters in full-color, as well as complete comic stories from Slow Death Funnies, Legion of Charlies, Deviant Slice, Yellow Dog, Thrilling Murder, and many other underground comic books. It also includes rarely seen album cover art for Jerry Garcia, Blue Cheer, Jefferson Starship and other counterculture musicians. Irons had a third career as an illustrator of children's coloring books, and pages from books including One Old Oxford Ox, Last of the Dinosaurs, Pirates, and Wyf of Bathe appear as well. Many examples of his tattoo art are also included. Think you've seen it all already? Not a chance. This book reproduces not only his greatest artistic hits, but also never-before-seen pages from his private sketchbooks and journals, personal photographs, unpublished paintings, and works that appeared in obscure publications, like the San Francisco Organ, which published the lurid story that Mick Jagger tried to suppress. This panoramic collection of superlative art is framed by Patrick Rosenkranz's extensive portrait of the artist, based on personal interviews with Irons, his friends, lovers, and colleagues. A candid and revealing depiction of a gifted artist who never abandoned the counterculture. An intimate expose of the all-too-human being behind some of the most revolutionary art in the underground. THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON hardcover is the long-awaited career retrospective of the most extreme of the Zap cartoonists of the late 1960s. A self-described "graphic agoraphobe," Wilson draws manically dense scenes of lurid mayhem that rank among the seminal works of underground, counterculture American art. It's all , from the classic chronicles of the Checkered Demon to salacious stories about the pirates, prostitutes, and poets that inhabit Wilson's divinely depraved world. RICK GRIFFIN was one of the most influential artists to emerge from the late 60s San Francisco art scene, second only perhaps to R. Crumb. His poster art and comix are descended from dada and surrealism, but take unique life in their representation of surf culture, psychedelic realities, and religious experience. This handsome softcover book covers the span of Griffin's career and is an excellent retrospective of the work of this magnificent artist. Griffin illustrated top flight album covers for classic rock acts including the Grateful Dead. The combined cover price for these 4 gems is $124.85. My minimum bid is only $59.85... save $65.00! Winning bidder pays $6.75 media mail in the U.S. only. Sorry, but I don't accept checks or credit cards. read more

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