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The invisible circus a 72 hour community

Title: The invisible circus [broadside] : a 72 hour community / presented by Artist Liberation Front, Diggers, Glide Foundation [...]
Publication: [San Francisco : Diggers, 1967]

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Still image	Permit needed	Berg Coll m.b. Counterculture Diggers M67 1967	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

1 broadside : ill.; 19 x 13 cm

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Genre/Form

Broadsides – California – San Francisco – 20th century.

Note

Designed by Victor Moscoso; printed in black on white stock; shows female figure seated in a hall with a curved roof..
The Invisible Circus was San Francisco’s digger underground answer to the Trips Festival that had happened the previous year. The Diggers staged this happening at Glide Church, where the Artists Liberation Front had held one of the first Free Fairs the previous fall. Originally advertised as a ‘72 hour environmental community happening,’ the event started Friday night and finally dissolved into the dawn’s breaking light on Sunday morning.From the Digger Archives website.
In 1967, Victor Moscoso was one of a team of artists who founded Berkeley Bonaparte, a company that created and marketed psychedelic posters.
Moscoso, asked by Richard Brautigan to design a poster for the Invisible Circus, selected a black-and-white image from a book on surrealism, and hand-painted the words above it. This small handbill reproduces the poster’s art in miniature; it has been described by Rolling Stone editor Charles Perry as looking like a human being with a rubber eraser for a face.

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Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Diggers M67 1967

OCLC

954775857

Title

The invisible circus [broadside] : a 72 hour community / presented by Artist Liberation Front, Diggers, Glide Foundation [...]

Imprint

[San Francisco : Diggers, 1967]

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Moscoso, Victor. Artist

Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Diggers M67 1967