Blotter - The Untold Story of an Acid Medium - Erik Davis (light wear)

Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium by Erik Davis / ISBN 9780262048507 / A 244-page paperback with flaps, 8 x 10 inches, published in 2024 by Strange Attractor Press *** A richly illustrated exploration of the history, art, and design of printed LSD blotter tabs. Blotter is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’s boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves, while also staying true to the sense of play, irreverence, and adventure inherent in psychedelic exploration. Davis weaves together two main stories: first, the largely unknown history of blotter paper’s development in the 1960s and its later flowering