{"id":9393,"date":"2011-05-19T02:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2014-12-01T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:43:12","slug":"in-the-land-of-retinal-delights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/19\/in-the-land-of-retinal-delights\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Land of Retinal Delights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Land of Retinal Delights (1968) by Robert Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n

More psychedelia. I’d wanted to link to a decent version of this painting by Robert Williams<\/a> for some time but it took a while for one to turn up. When people mention psychedelic art it’s usually concert posters they’re talking about. Williams’ super-detailed canvas is a good example of psychedelic painting when it conveys particular aspects of the hallucinogenic experience such as hyper-reality and a sense of physical distortion, something that the posters and album covers seldom convey. That said, Williams’ picture did appear as a cover illustration for The Acid Trip<\/em>, Vernon Joynson’s guide to psychedelic music in 1984, setting that volume apart from similar books which are often spoiled by poor artwork.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robert Williams at Beinart<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The art of Mati Klarwein, 1932\u20132002<\/a>
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In the Land of Retinal Delights (1968) by Robert Williams. More psychedelia. I’d wanted to link to a decent version of this painting by Robert Williams for some time but it took a while for one to turn up. When people mention psychedelic art it’s usually concert posters they’re talking about. Williams’ super-detailed canvas is … Continue reading “In the Land of Retinal Delights”<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,851,3,44,17,18],"tags":[124,295,2548,2547],"class_list":["post-9393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-drugs","category-music","category-painting","category-psychedelia","category-surrealism","tag-lsd","tag-mati-klarwein","tag-robert-williams","tag-vernon-joynson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2rv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393","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=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}