Johnny, the Work of Psychedelic Artist John Hurford [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Featuring for the first time, a retrospective of hundreds of
examples of his paintings, drawings, posters and book illustrations - the
sum of a lifetime's work from 1964 to the present day.

John Hurford's early work (as much of it still is today) was crowded with
flowers, birds and insects - highly detailed observations from the natural
world he saw around him in the Devon countryside where he lived. It was
often coupled with finely drawn Tolkienesque fantasy landscapes, people and
mythical
beings; goblin-like creatures were a favourite, as were naked girls. His
psychedelic style of painting and the subjects he chose were extremely
influential - young people (especially those within the emerging art school
culture at the end of the 1960s) instantly related to it, and it sparked
off a trend in itself when it first appeared.

John Hurford should be universally ranked amongst the top UK artists of the
Swinging Sixties. Revered at the time, in the decades that have followed he
has been completely overlooked, and is rarely mentioned even in the more
‘serious’ and in-depth works on British psychedelic art history - modern
researchers and writers invariably focussing only on the work of Martin
Sharp, Mike
McInnerney and the ‘Hapshash twins’ etc. ("the usual suspects" as Hoppy
calls them) and thereby missing out on a major part of the story.

• PAUL CROSS of the website Sweet Floral Albion says that John Hurford is
"one of the real unsung geniuses of the British psychedelic art scene" - a
fact that this book will hopefully change.

• Evening Standard Art Critic BRIAN SEWELL says that the book was "not
nearly as vile as I thought it might be." [18.8.2006]. Now that IS praise!

• World-renown psychedelic poster historian NIGEL MANTZEL says that "John
Hurford is psychedelia's best kept secret" and that "this book is the first
major in-depth work on any British Psychedelic Artist ever to be written".

Featuring for the first time, a retrospective of hundreds of
examples of his paintings, drawings, posters and book illustrations - the
sum of a lifetime's work from 1964 to the present day.

John Hurford's
early work (as much of it still is today) was crowded with flowers, birds
and insects - highly detailed observations from the natural world he saw
around him in the Devon countryside where he lived. It was often coupled
with finely drawn Tolkienesque fantasy landscapes, people and mythical
beings; goblin-like creatures were a favourite, as were naked girls. His
psychedelic style of painting and the subjects he chose were extremely
influential - young people (especially those within the emerging art school
culture at the end of the 1960s) instantly related to it, and it sparked
off a trend in itself when it first appeared.

John Hurford should be
universally ranked amongst the top UK artists of the Swinging Sixties.
Revered at the time, in the decades that have followed he has been
completely overlooked, and is rarely mentioned even in the more ‘serious’
and in-depth works on British psychedelic art history - modern researchers
and writers invariably focussing only on the work of Martin Sharp, Mike
McInnerney and the ‘Hapshash twins’ etc. ("the usual suspects" as Hoppy
calls them) and thereby missing out on a major part of the story.

• PAUL
CROSS of the website Sweet Floral Albion says that John Hurford is "one of
the real unsung geniuses of the British psychedelic art scene" - a fact
that this book will hopefully change.

• Evening Standard Art Critic BRIAN
SEWELL says that the book was "not nearly as vile as I thought it might
be." [18.8.2006]. Now that IS praise!

• World-renown psychedelic
poster historian NIGEL MANTZEL says that "John Hurford is psychedelia's
best kept secret" and that "this book is the first major in-depth
work on any British Psychedelic Artist ever to be written".

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more about John Hurford by visiting johnhurford.com

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