Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia

Walker Art Center, 2015, Softcover, 448 pages, 30 x 24 cm

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Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the Walker Art Center, this book examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. It includes the counter-design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus Rucker Co and ONYX; the media-based installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills and Mark Boyle and Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances staged by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as Oz magazine and books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much more.