From femme fatale to love goddess: Nineteenth-century images of women in sixties San Francisco psychedelic rock posters
Journal of Popular Culture October 1, 2023 Michael Parke‐Taylor
Abstract This essay sheds new light on the adoption and adaptation by Sixties San Francisco psychedelic poster artists of images of women from nineteenth‐century Symbolist, Art Nouveau, and Neoclassic sources. Nineteenth‐century stereotypes of women found new relevance when transformed into the visual rhetoric of west coast psychedelic dance‐concert posters from 1966 to 1970. The legacy of...