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Ankh ;

Title
Ankh ; nos. 1-4 (summer 1967-Sprint 1968)
Publication
Los Angeles : Elysium Inc., 1967-68.

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  • Cropsey, Charles.
  • Lange, Ed, 1920-
Description
4 vol. : chiefly ill.; 28 cm
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Ankh
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Ankh
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  • 7 issues publilshed.
  • Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white photographs.
  • Published by Ed Lange, founder of the Elysium Institute, a Topanga Canyon nudist colony founded in 1968. The colony was compelled to sell its property in 2000 and survived for one year at its Malibu location before closing in November 2001.
  • Topics include nudism, religious and mental health aspects of sexual freedom, censorship, environmentalism, and the burgeoning Counterculture; with numerous photos of young women and men enjoying the nudist lifestyle.
  • "Fed on a scientific diet of psilocybin and lysergic acid, it now thrives to the consternation of the generation which gave it life. From San Franciso's Haight-Ashbury to New York's East Village […] the Love Generation is in full swing" --From editorial, issue no. 1.
  • Issue no. 1 contains first part of an interview with Barry McGuire (of the American folk music group New Christy Minstrels) and his wife at their Topanga Canyon home.
  • Issue no. 2 includes 12-page analysis of the "The Love Book" obscenity trial; a history of censorship; and the second part of the Barry McGuire interview.
  • Issue no. 3 features articles on communal living in Big Sur, and experiments in nude psychotherapy near Escondido, California; hydro-psychotherapy.
  • Issue no. 4 includes "What Hath LSD/God/LSD Wrought?", a 9-page color and black-and-white photographic feature on LSD use in the Counterculture, including a visit to the Drop City commune; "Thoreau" The First Hippie"; "The Utopian Dream: Can The Modern Communes Succeed?" "Youth Rebellion," an 8-page feature on the Hippies and Diggers in Haight-Ashbery, Freaks in Los Angeles, and Provos in Amsterdam; and "Love in the Haight.
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Call Number
Berg Coll+ Counterculture A55 1967
OCLC
952106230
Title
Ankh ; nos. 1-4 (summer 1967-Sprint 1968)
Imprint
Los Angeles : Elysium Inc., 1967-68.
Series
Ankh
Ankh
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Cropsey, Charles. Editor
Lange, Ed, 1920- Editor
Lange, Ed, 1920- pu b
Research Call Number
Berg Coll+ Counterculture A55 1967
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