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Out There: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg

Name: Out There: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg
Brand: Mandrake of Oxford
SKU: 9781906958794
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Contributors:

Spencer Kansa

Publisher:

Mandrake of Oxford

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts

Book Subcategory:

Artists, Architects, Photographers, Film

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Release Date:

2017-09-16

ISBN 13:

9781906958794

Weight:

1.38 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 8.50 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

258

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From the late-1950s until his premature death in 1977, Burt Shonberg was one of the most highly admired artists in Los Angeles. During this period, his eye-popping murals graced the facades and interiors of popular coffeehouses and hip clubs on the Sunset Strip; his paintings adorned several notable rock album covers, and his haunting portraits featured prominently in Roger Corman's film adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher and The Premature Burial.

Soon after he settled in L.A., Shonberg became the lover of the legendary occult artist Marjorie Cameron who turned him on to the teachings of the Edwardian magus Aleister Crowley and introduced him to the mind-warping properties of peyote. Shonberg also embraced the Fourth Way system of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, and his canvases began to reflect the mystical illumination inspired by his higher states of consciousness.

In 1960, the artist was chosen by Dr. Oscar Janiger to participate in his groundbreaking study into the effects of LSD-25 on the creative process. Although Shonberg regarded himself as a magical realist, his remarkable renderings of his hallucinogenic visions led many of his acolytes to regard him as the preeminent psychedelic artist of the era, and in the words of his friend and fellow painter Walter Teller, "Burt was the artist of Laurel Canyon."

Yet despite his popularity and status, Shonberg's artistry has been criminally overlooked in all historical accounts of the Southern Californian art scene, until now. Out There redresses this injustice and brings some long overdue recognition to L.A.'s greatest lost artist, in a book illustrated with rare examples of his incandescent artwork.

Out There: The Transcendent Life and Art of Burt Shonberg

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