Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia [Walker Center]

While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures, including Gerd Stern of USCO, Ken Isaacs, Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co, Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX, Franco Raggi of Global Tools, Tony Martin, Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City, as well as new scholarly writings, this book explores the conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life."

This book is one of the finest achievements in cataloging the long-term impacts and more radical aspects of hippie reality. Massive, beautifully laid out, and full of mind blowing illustrations. While the idea of "hippie culture" is kind of blase, this book lays the case that the movement sent a shock-wave through culture at all levels. Highly recommended.