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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Psychedelic USA, 1960s, gouache on paper, AYG D436 01

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Psychedelic USA, 1960s, gouache on paper, AYG D436_01
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Psychedelic
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country USA
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Publication Date: 1960s
Image Description: USA, 1960s, gouache on paper

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"TRADITIONALLY, FASHION HAS filtered down from the upper echelons of society to the lower ones. But in a reversal of that process, 1960s fashions emerged from the street, defying social conformity. Psychedelics were one such vogue. Their swirling shapes and neon colors seemed to capture on cloth the hallucinations of an acid trip, which is exactly what their name implies. This was no subtle message; it was a shrill scream of awakening. Psychedelic patterns were associated with a youth culture's dawning self-awareness and with a whole package of ideas about society, politics, and pleasure. Almost twenty-five years later, in 1990, the fashion world resurrected the psychedelic look. Another generation of youth is wearing it, but the social statement of the 1960s was so powerful that the neon seems dim without it."

Source: Design Library