As Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art, by Norman
Hathaway and Dan Nadel, shows, Edelmann's story isn't the only
exception to some of the generally held rules of sixties
psychedelic art. Another is that there were no great women artists
of the period. How, then, to explain Marijke Koger, member of the
design collective the Fool (which created, for instance, the
costumes for the Magical Mystery Tour film), painter (her murals
for the Aquarius Theater provided the backdrop for the famed LA run
of Hair), set designer (on the 1968 film Wonderwall), and onetime
musician (she's credited as the tambourinist during the Beatles'
"All You Need Is Love" telecast). A modern women, she did it
all.
The language of psychedelia existed beyond the borders of the
Western world, too. Two of the seven artists profiled in the book
are Japanese. Keiichi Tanaami's illustrations, record sleeves, and
posters are inflected with elements of ukiyo and manga, Pop art and
underground comics; they're also significantly informed by his
memories of World War II. "Toyko was on fire," he recalls. "It was
very psychedelic for me."--Nicole Rudick "The Paris Review Daily"
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