It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate choice than Glaser for the jacket design of Tom Wolfe's account of late -
1960s psychedelic drug culture through the experience of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
Not exact matches
At a handful of sites across the country, after a four - decade hiatus,
psychedelic research is undergoing a quiet renaissance, thanks to scientists like Charles Grob who are revisiting the powerful mind - altering
drugs of the
1960s in hopes of making them part of our therapeutic arsenal.
Psychedelic drugs often conjure images of the colorful, mind - bending world of
1960s counterculture.
This idea of cosmic consciousness ---- later transformed slightly into concepts like «expanded consciousness,» at which point, in the late
1960s, it fed into ideas about the
psychedelic and transformative powers of LSD and other
drugs ---- is something that is comprehensible in Fleming's paintings even if you don't know a thing about theories of the fourth dimension.
Even collage works such as Untitled (Second Stage Injector), 1963, and Algae, Algae, c. 1961 - 63, like the aforementioned sculptures, employ humor and
psychedelic imagery to reference utopian ideals and the
drug - induced haze of
1960s counterculture.
There is a hope that the entactogenic and
psychedelic agents, once demonised in the wake of the
1960s drug culture, may now begin again to have an important new role in the treatment of anxiety disorders in the future.