
December 31, 2009
The D Word: Maira Kalman

High production LP album cover design was at its zenith during the anti-establishment, youth-culture, hippy era. Amid the tumultuous sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll tidal wave of the mid- to late sixties bands wanted their share of the spotlight. It was certainly ironic, in retrospect, that the uproarious in-your-face spirit of the time—a rebellion against ostentatious materialism—gave birth to the most excessive design pyrotechincs since art nouveau.
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