{"id":15095,"date":"2014-04-05T02:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2014-04-06T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T15:09:51","slug":"acid-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/04\/05\/acid-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Acid covers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug (1964).<\/em><\/p>\n

From serious scientific study, to tabloid concern, to psychedelic exploitation…a brief evolution of acid-related cover art in books and magazines. These are mostly American titles so who knows what else has yet to be rediscovered.<\/p>\n

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LSD (1966) by Richard Alpert & Sidney Cohen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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LIFE, March 25th, 1966.<\/em><\/p>\n

See inner pages here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Newsweek, May 9th, 1966.<\/em><\/p>\n

See inner pages here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LIFE, September 9th, 1966.<\/em><\/p>\n

See inner pages here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LSD : Trip or Trap? (1966) by Lindsay R. Curtis.<\/em><\/p>\n

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LSD: The Problem-Solving Psychedelic (1967) by PG Stafford & BH Golightly.<\/em><\/p>\n

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LSD Lusters (1967) by John Dexter. Art by Darrel Millsap.<\/em><\/p>\n

Reckless desire ruled their shame cult!<\/p>\n

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LSD Orgy (1967) by Marcus Miller. Art by Ed Smith.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their psychedelic sin-trip passed the point of no return!<\/p>\n

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The Sexual Paradise of LSD (1967) by Marsha Alexander.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Front Page Detective, July 1967.<\/em><\/p>\n

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LSD: Some Questions and Answers (1969).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Acid Party (1969) by Anthony Yewker.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Exclusevely”<\/p>\n

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Drug Awareness (1970) by Richard E. Horman & Allan M. Fox.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lieutenant LSD (1971) by Lan Creston.<\/em><\/p>\n

A self-published memoir.<\/p>\n

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LSD: Visions or Nightmares? (1988).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Lyrical Substance Deliberated<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Art of Tripping, a documentary by Storm Thorgerson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Enter the Void<\/a>
\n\u2022 In the Land of Retinal Delights<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of LSD<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hep cats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug (1964). From serious scientific study, to tabloid concern, to psychedelic exploitation…a brief evolution of acid-related cover art in books and magazines. These are mostly American titles so who knows what else has yet to be rediscovered. LSD (1966) by Richard Alpert & Sidney Cohen. LIFE, March 25th, 1966. See inner pages … Continue reading “Acid covers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,851,17],"tags":[124,5954],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-design","category-drugs","category-psychedelia","tag-lsd","tag-richard-alpert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3Vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}