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UFO - Love Festival

Poster
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (artist)
Osiris (publishers)
English, Michael (artist)
Place of origin
England (made)

Psychedelic poster. Day-glow pink/ crimson on white background. Image of lips.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleUFO - Love Festival (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Silkscreen
Paper
Silkscreen
Printing
Brief description
Psychedelic poster by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English) entitled 'UFO Love Festival'. London, 1967.
Physical description
Psychedelic poster. Day-glow pink/ crimson on white background. Image of lips.
Dimensions
  • Height: 770mm
  • Width: 1013mm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Marks and inscriptions
  • LOVE FESTIVAL (Text of poster, in red and pink emanating from image of mouth.)
  • designed by michael english (Text in top right hand corner.)
  • u.f.o.31 tot.ct.rd.10.30[arrow]daydawnlite / feb 10.bonzo dog doo dah band. / ginger johnson.bank dick.w.c.fields. / + chien andalou.salvador dali. / feb 17.soft machine.indian music. / disney cartoons.mark boyle.feature / movie (Text under mouth in pink and red.)
  • PRINTED IN ENGLAND/ OA201 [COPYRIGHT] OSIRIS VISIONS LTD 90 WESTBOURNE TER W2 (Text in bottom right hand corner.)
Object history
Poster advertising entertainment at the UFO, London. Published by Osiris Visions, London.
Subjects depicted
Mouth (Physiological )
Love
Festivals
Bibliographic reference
Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
Other number
OA201
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1699-1991

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Record createdNovember 13, 2006
Record URL
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