Summer of Love

Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, “out-of-this-world” clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco’s rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love. This book explores, through essays and a succession of thematic plates, the visual and material cultures of a generation searching for personal fulfillment and social change. Presenting key cultural artifacts of the time, Summer of Love introduces and explores the events and experiences that today define this dynamic era.
 
With essays by Victoria Binder, Dennis McNally, and Joel Selvin.
 
Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Exhibition dates:
de Young, San Francisco: April 8–August 20, 2017

Jill D’Alessandro is curator of the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Department of Textile Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is the author of Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave and contributed to Lines on the Horizon: Native American Art from the Weisel Family Collection.
 
Colleen Terry is assistant curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She is the author of Artful Animals and a contributor to Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition and Ed Ruscha and the Great American West.

foreword
map

essays
not past at all
dennis mcnally
selling san francisco’s sound
colleen terry
stitching a new paradigm
jill d ’alessandro
if you’re going to san francisco
joel selvin

catalogue and more
(sittin’ on) the dock of the bay
a trip without a ticket
the gathering of the tribes
love and haight
the poster shop
feed your head
the music never stopped
what are we fighting for?
san francisco psychedelic
rock posters
victoria binder
the sixties in san francisco
van meter

time line
selected bibliography
checklist
index
acknowledgments
picture credits
contributors