{"id":1963,"date":"2007-05-26T01:45:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T00:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2010-05-21T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T19:28:26","slug":"the-art-of-lsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/05\/26\/the-art-of-lsd\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of LSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboybooks.com.au\/html\/acidtrip1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/lsd_art.jpg\" alt=\"lsd_art.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not art inspired by LSD but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboybooks.com.au\/html\/acidtrip1.html\" target=\"_blank\">drawings done whilst under its influence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD\u2014part of a test conducted by the US government during its dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950s. The artist was given a dose of LSD-25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/blotter.jpg\" alt=\"blotter.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the whole world of blotter art, like this fairly recent Penguin logo example. Lots more blotter designs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erowid.org\/chemicals\/lsd\/lsd_images_gallery1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blotterbarn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/02\/28\/the-trip-goes-on\/\">The trip goes on<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/11\/albert-hofmann\/\">Albert Hofmann<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/08\/21\/hep-cats\/\">Hep cats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not art inspired by LSD but drawings done whilst under its influence. These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD\u2014part of a test conducted by the US government during its dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950s. The artist was given a dose of LSD-25 and free access to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/05\/26\/the-art-of-lsd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of LSD&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,851,17],"tags":[1239,124],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-drugs","category-psychedelia","tag-albert-hofmann","tag-lsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-vF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}