The Artist in the Counterculture - Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge (discounted)

The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge by Thomas Crow / ISBN 9780691236162 / 288-page hardback, 7.9 x 10.4 inches, published in 2023 by Princeton University Press / mostly text but also illustrated throughout / discounted copies with light wear *** How California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped―and was shaped by―West Coast artists The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period’s youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in that decade. As their prime exemplar, Bruce Conner, reminisced, “I did everything that everybody did in 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury. . . . I would take peyote and walk out in the streets.” And he vividly channeled those experiences into his art, while making his mark on every facet of the psychedelic movement―from the mountains of Mexico with Timothy Leary to the rock ballrooms of San Francisco