The Enchanted Forest
Poster
1967 (made)
1967 (made)
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This is one of a set of drawings and printed images in the V&A's collection by artist John Hurford. Hurford was one of the key figures in the explosion of psychedelic imagery in Britain in the late 1960s. His drawings, mainly executed in pen and ink and enlivened by brilliant washes of coloured inks, were reproduced as posters and illustrations in the leading Underground publications of the day, including Oz, IT and Gandalf's Garden.
Hurford's meticulously and minutely-particularised drawing style was coupled with his fascination with natural plant and tree forms. They gave his work a direct appeal to the hippy generation, who either aspired to get back to the simpler country life or who, as city-dwellers, nurtured a romanticised dream of rural existence.
Hurford's meticulously and minutely-particularised drawing style was coupled with his fascination with natural plant and tree forms. They gave his work a direct appeal to the hippy generation, who either aspired to get back to the simpler country life or who, as city-dwellers, nurtured a romanticised dream of rural existence.
Object details
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| Title | The Enchanted Forest (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed on architects's blueprint copying machine. |
| Brief description | Poster 'The Enchanted Forest', by John Hurford, England, 1967. |
| Physical description | Poster comprising head and nude figures. To the left the face of a hooded man shown in profile, below this a woman's head next to a rose; in the centre a nude female body above the head of Michelangelo's statue of David and the top half of the head of a man with long hair, and a bird's head to the left; to the right a woman's head in three quarter profile, above a male fantastical creature and nude woman above the head of a bearded man. Title in outline lettering top centre. |
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| Credit line | Given by the artist |
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| Summary | This is one of a set of drawings and printed images in the V&A's collection by artist John Hurford. Hurford was one of the key figures in the explosion of psychedelic imagery in Britain in the late 1960s. His drawings, mainly executed in pen and ink and enlivened by brilliant washes of coloured inks, were reproduced as posters and illustrations in the leading Underground publications of the day, including Oz, IT and Gandalf's Garden. Hurford's meticulously and minutely-particularised drawing style was coupled with his fascination with natural plant and tree forms. They gave his work a direct appeal to the hippy generation, who either aspired to get back to the simpler country life or who, as city-dwellers, nurtured a romanticised dream of rural existence. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.364-2010 |
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| Record created | February 1, 2011 |
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