“John Thompson is a extremely persuasive myth maker...working
within the broad mythological lines of “psychedelic” expression,
but with a highly personal vision and style which creates mythical
worlds in the truest meaning of the term. Systematic, self
contained, and real...Thompson is a self taught artist whose
work has frequently appeared in such publications as the Oracle,
The San Francisco Express Times, and the Berkeley Barb...creates
powerful symbolic images which have the haunting ambiguity
and multiplicity of potential “meanings” ...with
his generally meticulous, elegant, and classically
controlled technique.”
Thomas Albright, San Fransisco Chronicle Dec. 4th, 1968
(author of “Art in the SanFransisco Bay Area”)
“The nostalgia for the psychedelic revolution usually
dates the belle epoch of its poster art from 1966 to 1971...As
a result, these paper products of a barefoot past are now worth
money...you don’t want to be paying hard earned lucre
for some facsimile: it’s got to be a true piece...”
“In Psychedelic Collectibles of the 60’s and 70’s:
an illustrated Price Guide” 1990 values of Thompson’s
posters, underground newspaper covers and his dozen published
books are given along with his friend Robert Crumb with whom
he collaborated in the sixties. |
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