Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards
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In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms of art and music. It started in in small, sweaty clubs but such was the popularity that soon enormous Raves, with tens of thousands of people, were common.
‘House’ music and illegal drug ecstasy were the driving forces behind what turned into a global phenomenon. Events that started as secretive nights in underground clubs, with word-of-mouth advertising grew from one-off take-overs of unusual venues into huge open land-based events. Pager and telephonic communication became the medium of message-passing, and flyers were key to it all: informing the right people about the right place at the right time. Chelsea Berlin was there from the beginning, attending many of the now legendary events, from Club Shoom to Energy and beyond.
In Rave Art, the whole exciting movement is documented through the flyers that were handed out freely (often privately) to inform partygoers of the next venue. Flyer design became an artform, and this book contains hundreds of the most significant and rare examples from Chelsea’s huge collection.
Together with personal reminiscences and quotes from famous, infamous and not-so-famous attendees, Rave Art paints a vivid picture of what is probably the last significant youth culture movement of modern times.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Welbeck Publishing, Updated and expanded edition (15 Oct. 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 200 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1787394980 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1787394988 |
| Dimensions | 24.77 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm |
by Jonny L
Fantastic coffee table book with some amazing flyers,etc from the halcyon days of Rave, got this almost new for an excellent price but its actually worth paying the full price fore this, if your old skool you’ll certainly appreciate this.
by Lynn Cassidy
Great Art – from something that was just an invite but today originals are in demand
by Lucy Ella
We all like those books we can put on our coffee table for anyone to flick through. This is my favourite, really nicely presented book with excellent choice of selection, everyone who’s flicked through seems to have found it interesting as well.
by stephen camps
I think RAVE ART might be a little too generous a title for this book. Yes, it does have some of the more graphic and creative design from Pez et al from early 90’s but also loads of the somewhat dull to look at early cardboard single colour printed ‘invitations’ from the early pioneers like Sunrise, Biology, Energy etc.
If you were ‘there’ this book is full of nostalgia and very happy but hazy memories.
by Gary Sutton
I bought this as a present. I had a quick flick through and was quite impressed. There are loads of great pictures with short descriptions giving you a bit of background. It goes back quite far as well.
The it’s hardback and the pages feel good quality.
by Erika
I was expecting to get at least a few pages discussing the design of the flyers and how they evolved with time or how designers expressed themselves. All I got is just amateur chatting about every party they went and who was playing there. Only a few weak lines about flyer design and a few about fashion…
Cute book cover but weird paper, it got very dirty just from the dust of the table and it wouldn’t come off.
by Ray Lee
Fantastic collection of rave posters, well curated bringing back memories of great times
by Lee
Nice piece of rave art history in one handy paperback. An interesting reflection of rave culture.