Join Clarita for a brief trip down the blacklight detour of poster art history!
The origin of blacklight/UV, gig posters, psychedelia, Houston Black Light Poster Company, Black Power, zodiac intercourse positions, rasta lions!
SOURCES
https://willamette.edu/arts/hfma/exhibitions/library/2017-18/turned-on.html
https://groovyhistory.com/why-were-70s-blacklight-posters-so-popular
BLACK PANTHERS
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/black-panthers-black-light-poster-1920954481
https://artinprint.org/article/black-light-panthers-the-politics-of-fluorescence/
HOUSTON BLACK LIGHT COMPANY
https://digitalcollections.lib.uh.edu/collections/qv33rx75m
http://printingmuseum.org/exhibition/glow/
https://www.lot-art.com/auctions/HISTORY-IN-POSTERS-FROM-BLACKLIGHT-TO-ZIGZAG/161332
Forgotten radicalism – daily.jstor.org
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Theme music: "Jet in Jungle" by Damaged Bug, courtesy of John Dwyer