CIA v UFO
Poster
1967 (made)
1967 (made)
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Poster for Pink Floyd, 'CIA v UFO', Art Deco style in blue, orange and yellow, with image of angel and a city on a rock.
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Title | CIA v UFO (popular title) |
Materials and techniques | Colour screen-print |
Brief description | Poster for Pink Floyd entitled 'CIA v UFO', designed by Hashash and the Coloured Coat (Michael English and Nigel Waymouth). Great Britain, 1967. |
Physical description | Poster for Pink Floyd, 'CIA v UFO', Art Deco style in blue, orange and yellow, with image of angel and a city on a rock. |
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Historical context | This poster advertises a performance of Pink Floyd, the psychedelic pop group, at the UFO club in Tottenham Court Road. UFO was a weekly club launched by the underground newspaper International Times in 1966 in an attempt to improve its finances and provide an all-night venue. Groups such as Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and later Authur Brown played regularly and the space swirled with psychedelic light shows and 'beautiful' people. Although UFO only existed for ten months Hapshash designed a number of psychedelic posters characterised by their innovatory use of Art Nouveau forms (here clearly derived from Mucha) and rainbow inking combined with metallic and fluorescent colours. Osiris continued to sell the posters for home decoration. [Julia Bigham, 'British Design at Home', p.149] |
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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 | OA114 |
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Accession number | E.1713-1991 |
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Record created | February 10, 2000 |
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