The Art of the Fillmore

The Art of the Fillmore
Author: Gayle Lemke
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1560256303

Legendary impresario Bill Graham began in January 1966 to commission posters to promote the concerts he was putting on at San Francisco’s Fillmore auditorium. The poster artists followed the revolutionary mandate of the sixties consciousness, creating vivid, irreverent banners that reflected their own sense of poetics, style, and wit. What resulted were signature juxtapositions of design, lettering, and color that spawned a brand new art form. Their muse was the cosmic synergy that then abounded, fueled in part by LSD. These posters have since come to occupy a place in art history while surviving priceless artifacts of rock archeology. Published in cooperation with Bill Graham Presents, this is an intoxicating compendium of the funkiest posters of the century. Highlighted in this unique, lavishly printed full-color volume are the original numbered and unnumbered series created exclusively for the San Francisco and New York Fillmore dance concerts. The more than 400 hand-drawn posters, handbills, tickets, and photographs feature art by Wes Wilson, Bonnie MacLean, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Rick Griffin, Lee Conklin, Greg Irons, Randy Tuten, David Byrd, David Singer, and Norman Orr.

Harlem of the West

Harlem of the West
Author: Elizabeth Pepin
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780811845489

Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. With archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it, this vividly illustrated tour will delight jazz fans and history aficionados.

Bill Graham Presents

Bill Graham Presents
Author: Bill Graham
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2004-05-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780306813498

The national best-selling autobiography of Bill Graham, the colorful, larger-than-life architect of the modern concert industry

Welcome to Painterland

Welcome to Painterland
Author: Anastasia Aukeman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520289455

The Rat Bastard ProtectiveÊAssociation was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who livedÊand worked in aÊbuilding they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the RatÊBastardsÑwhich included Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo,ÊWallyÊHedrick, Michael McClure, and Manuel NeriÑexhibited a unique fusion of radicalism,Êprovocation, and community. Geographically isolated from a viable art market and refusingÊto conform to institutional expectations, theyÊanimated broader social andÊartistic discussions through their work and became aÊtransformative part of American culture over time. Anastasia Aukeman presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle, a colorful cultural milieu that intersected with the broader Beat scene.

Shadows on the Mesa

Shadows on the Mesa
Author: Gary Fillmore
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780764340543

From 1909 until the late 1920s, the Wetherill-Colville Guest Ranch in Kayenta, Arizona, was the primary stopover for writers, geologists, archeologists, adventurers, and tourists visiting Monument Valley and the Tsegi Canyon ruins. The artists who visited Kayenta during the early twentieth century included some of the most well known names in the American Southwest. See their paintings, illustrations, and photos of this beloved Southwest region. In addition, you will find full page guest registry entries illustrated by artists such as Maynard Dixon, William Robinson Leigh, James Swinnerton, Carl Oscar Borg, and Gunnar Widforss. The guest book serves as the archival record of those hardy individuals who ventured to the place that was, according to Dixon, "a long ways from anywhere, in any direction." Using over 390 enthralling illustrations and engaging text, this book explores the similarities and differences in the lives, artistic styles, and beliefs of the men and women who considered northern Arizona their favorite region.

Live at the Fillmore East and West

Live at the Fillmore East and West
Author: John Glatt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1493016725

From the Allman Brothers Band to Frank Zappa, and through the interweaving lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Carlos Santana, author John Glatt chronicles the story of the 1960s’ rock music Colossus that stood astride the East and West Coasts—Graham’s twin temples of rock, the Fillmore East and Fillmore West.

Off the Wall

Off the Wall
Author: Amélie Gastaut
Publisher:
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2005
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780500285541

A collection of more than one hundred posters from San Francisco's psychedelic rock music scene includes pieces created by such definitive designers as Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, and Rick Griffin, in a volume complemented by a history of psychedelic rock music and the movements that influenced its corresponding poster design. Original.

The Fillmore East

The Fillmore East
Author: Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1995
Genre: Music
ISBN:

From 1968-1971, New York's Fillmore East was the greatest rock palace in the world. Kostelanetz, who attended the Fillmore religiously, has assembled a collection of his original program notes and memories on the performances and performers, including The Who, Grateful Dead, The Byrds, and Janis Joplin, to create this definitive history.

Dreams Unreal

Dreams Unreal
Author: Titus O'Brien
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0826361501

The psychedelic rock poster is one of the most explosively inventive, instantly recognisable, and profoundly influential aesthetic movements of the last century. The poster art that gave visual life to the amazing music that sprang up across the Bay Area from 1965 to 1970 lives on in 'Dreams Unreal'.