Castalia Foundation for Psychedelic Research Presents Timothy Leary PhD and Richard Alpert PhD. How to use your head: a dialogue on LSD and consciousness expansion. A new theory of human nature based on recent neurological and pharmacological evidence.
[LEARY, (Timothy Francis).]. & [ALPERT (Richard)].; ROSS (Robert).
Sunday 29 November 8:30 pm tickets at Town Hall 3.00. Second Edition. 67.5 x 83.5 cm. woodblock print with titles blue, brown, green and red on black Murillo paper, the published state 11/18 of a limited edition signed by the artist, from a total edition of 23 with five in proof. N.p [Berkeley], n.p [Privately Published], 1992
In fine condition. Institutionally rare. It is considered by the trade to be the first L.S.D poster.
Ross used the original woodblocks and near identical inks to restrike this historic poster that was originally printed at Cooper Union in nineteen-sixy-four in an edition of around twenty. Almost the complete run apparently went to the Castalia Foundation. Alpert and Leary commissioned it for their first appearance at New York City's Town Hall venue. The style of the poster is rather 'mid-century modern'' as it would be two or three years before a recognizable 'psychedelic' canon of graphic design emerged from the Haight.
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