1967 Poster The Electric Experience The Ultimate Legal Entertainment Experience

Description: 1967 Poster, The Electric Experience, The Ultimate Legal Entertainment Experience Nightclub, East Village, NYC, by Jacqui Morgan, Printed in USA.I noticed a few areas that have been a slightly discolored while stored, will try to capture in photos and update. An excellent vintage 1967 poster for ‘The Electric Circus’ designed by American illustrator Jacqui Morgan. This poster was created for the New York City nightclub "The Electric Circus", part of the counter culture in the East Village frequented by Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground. It was also birthplace of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. (The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, was a series of multimedia events organized by Andy Warhol in 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, and dancing and performances by regulars of Warhol's Factory, especially Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga. Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable is also the title of an 18-minute film by Ronald Nameth with recordings from one week of performances of the shows which were filmed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966. In December 1966 Warhol included a one-off magazine called The Plastic Exploding Inevitable as part of the Aspen No. 3 package.) from Wikipedia Morgan worked in watercolors and pencil and developed a style she described as ‘anthropomorphic double-images’. The poster features the name as a double image at the top with an image of a hand painted with the sun and stars holding a flower created of multicolored nude women and is signed (in plate) to the bottom. In very good vintage condition. There are light markings lower left side shown in photo. There are no tape, nails, staple or pin marks. Dimensions 26.25" W x 40.5" H Rare. A smaller version of this poster is kept at the Norman Rockwell Museum of art: "PUBLICATION Poster art for The Electric Circus PUBLICATION DATE 1967 MEDIUM Ink wash SUPPORT Paper ILLUSTRATION SIZE 13.75 x 10 in. COLLECTION Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRM.2014.03.054" White Background The Electric Circus St. Marks Place between 2nd and 3rd, East Village, NYC. 1967 Electric Circus of New York, Pat. Pend., Coffee in the Think Tank. Printed in USA Interesting article about the clubs opening night, from "The Village Voice", July 1967, in part: "Jack Newfield Catches the Electric Circus Opening on St. Marks Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 6, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 38 Hippies & New Frontier On ‘Desolation Row’ By Jack Newfield ... The scene was the opening of the Electric Circus, the latest total environment, McLuhanist discotheque. Its owners spent $300,000 for the flashing strobes, films, music, astrodome-style turf, and circus acts ... Inside, people danced, sweated, pushed and blinked. The few Linear Conceptualizers quit immediately. There was the Poet of Pop, Tom Wolfe, and the Fugs’s Tuli Kupferberg, and novelist Mary McCarthy, and Kennedy-in-law Steve Smith, and folk-singer David Blue, and halfback George Plimpton. It looked like the cover of the next Beatles’ album. The New Frontier met the Underground, while the Beautiful People kept score. ... There is a Manchester-like temptation to leech profound meaning from the absurd. But the significance is slight. If it proves McLuhan’s theories of an electronic future valid, it also proves Michael Harrington’s theories of a decadent present equally true. ..."

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