The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971

The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971

From

The Poster Series 1966-1971

Average Rating

        The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971Legendary 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 created vivid, irreverent banners that reflected their own sense of poetics, style, and wit. What resulted were signature juxtapositions of design, lettering, and color that represented a brand-new art form. These posters now occupy a place in art history while surviving as treasured artifacts of rock archaeology.

Published in cooperation with Bill Graham Presents, The Art of the Fillmore reunites for the first time in a single volume the original Bill Graham posters created exclusively for the San Francisco and New York Fillmore dance concerts. Indexes cross-reference the posters with the bands they advertised and the poster artists who created them.

  • amazon.com Sales Rank: #483310 in Book
  • ABIS_BOOK

the art of the filmore by M. A. Schafer
if i only knew then what i know now!!! this book shows how a few artists made history and real art

High on the colors by S. Smyth
This is the most comprehensive collection of psychedelic art I could find. Remember a time when commercial design came from the heart to the pen. No computer enhanced 3-D images. Just wavy brush strokes and colors bold enough to get you high. Pick it up, and trip out.

Useful Resource by Daniel Raphael
The main positives: this is complete, showing the first and most modest flyer, up through the closing of the Fillmore; almost all the flyers are at least partly in color, and they do indeed show the tenor of the era (which I well remember).

The main negative: most of these are shown as a small part of each page; few are relatively large, and I don’t recall any being full-page size. So, don’t buy this book in the expectation that you’re getting a collection of full-page reproductions (even reduced in size from the originals, as they would be).

Important historical document found! by GCGarrison
This zeros in on what the sixties meant to me. A period of artistic creativity without bounds and limits. One giant leap for mankind…I used to sit in art class and try to copy the lettering in some of these psychedelic posters and it was hard. And to think these San Francisco artist were so prolific as to produce a new one or two every week. I was in awe of this period and love to look back on that scene. Thanks to the Bill Graham estate for compiling this tomb from the ancient ones that came before us.

Superb by psychsound
The psychedelic posters from the late 1960’s are classic and very much a part of rock history. These posters were commissioned by Bill Graham, who ran the Fillmore East and West, and other venues. The posters were beautiful and colorful and psychedelic. They were carefully created and used to promote the concerts, but what makes them so amazing is that all this work to promote only a few weekend concerts, which typically featured three or four bands playing on Friday and Saturdays. Never again would such works of art capture the moment. This book tells you about the artists and how they came to become Fillmore artists, and of course full color reproductions of the Fillmore posters are prominently featured through the book. If you love the posters, you’ll love the book.

Similar Product

Published in: on October 29, 2008 at 4:27 am Comments (0)