{"title":"Victor Moscoso","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"victor-moscoso-psychedelic-drawings-1967-1982-book-victor-moscoso-9780977878383","title":"Victor Moscoso: Psychedelic Drawings 1967-1982","description":"This is the catalogue for the first retrospective of drawings by Victor Moscoso (born 1936), one of the preeminent graphic artists of the 20th century, who is widely renowned for his 1960s psychedelic posters and comics. Moscoso began designing posters for rock shows in San Francisco in 1966, and quickly developed a signature style in which opposite hues of the same intensity sit next to each other to create a visual \"vibration\" effect. This book is the first to present the full range of Moscoso's drawings for posters and comics, including original renderings for his renowned cover of \u003ci\u003eZap Comix 4\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), the \u003ci\u003eHocus Pocus\u003c\/i\u003e story, posters for The Doors and The Who, and other seminal published editions. These works reveal Moscoso's dedication to expert draftsmanship in the service of graphics, as well as his graceful approach to drawing everything from dinosaurs to spaceships to humans.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51325153640721,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325156065553,"sku":"CIN0977878384VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53522137612561,"sku":"NLS9780977878383","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0977878384.jpg?v=1750981370"},{"product_id":"sex-rock-optical-illusions-book-victor-moscoso-9781560976578","title":"Sex, Rock \u0026 Optical Illusions","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first career retrospective of one of the defining stylists of the 1960s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The 1960s are known as a decade of social and political unrest: The Cuban Missile Crisis, the struggle for civil rights, the escalating protests against the Vietnam war, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, the formation of radical home-grown organizations such as the Weather Underground. It was also a time of cultural revolution, in music (The Beatles, the Stones, the ascendancy of rock 'n' roll), literature (Ken Kesey, Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, et al.), journalism (Tom Wolfe's New Journalism and Hunter Thompson's Gonzo journalism), films (Mike Nichols, Bob Rafelson, Sam Peckinpah), and the heady conflation of Fine Art with the Pop Art movement (Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Comics were undergoing their own revolution and no one epitomized underground comix and psychedelia more than Victor Moscoso, whose posters for such bands as The Grateful Dead, Big Brother \u0026amp; The Holding Company and the Steve Miller Blues Band, stand as enduring works of art and instantly recognizable icons of their time. Moscoso (along with fellow artists Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson, Alton Kelley and Peter Max) revolutionized the poster aesthetic and defined the visual culture of a generation. R. Crumb invited Moscoso to join the Zap Comix collective in 1968, and Moscoso's work has appeared in every issue from \u003ci\u003eZap\u003c\/i\u003e #2 to present. His comix work contrasted with his fellow artists (R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, et al.) by his unique stylization, less confrontational point of view, hallucinatory visual rhythms, and wordless, dreamlike stories.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSex, Rock 'N' Roll \u0026amp; Optical Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e is Victor Moscoso's first major, career-spanning retrospective, from his earliest poster work in 1966 to his most recent graphic experimentation. \u003ci\u003eOptical Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e contains his best posters that advertised bands playing in San Francisco's famous dance ballrooms of the time--the Avalon, the Matrix, and the Fillmoreas well as many of his \u003ci\u003eZap Comix\u003c\/i\u003e contributions, and his solo comix work, many in Moscoso's signature color. This wide-ranging career retrospective--Moscoso's famous technique employing \"vibrating colors\" that he pioneered in his posters is impeccably reproduced with as much fidelity to the original as modern printing can achieve, his black-and-white and full color comix work is collected here for the first time is an intense, vibrant, and revelatory experience.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53201086120209,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53201086284049,"sku":"GOR004035661","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781560976578.jpg?v=1772628018"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-victor-moscoso.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}