The Workshop of Democracy

by James MacGregor Burns

Book Overview

From the 1950s through today, here is the complete visual history of the rock concert poster: the funkiest bills advertising Elvis, B.B. King, and Howlin' Wolf; the multicolored psychedelic hallucinations promoting the Grateful Dead, Dylan, and the Doors; the deliciously tasteless art for the Sex Pistols, Crime, and the Clash. From the Red Dog Saloon in San Francisco, where the psychedelic scene started, to CBGB, New York's punk Mecca, and beyond...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394512758
• ISBN13: 9780394512754
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 670 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"