Nothing Is Real: Quando I Beatles incontrarono L'Oriente / When the Beatles Met the East

Smith, Nanny

ISBN 10: 8836633889 / ISBN 13: 9788836633883

Verlag: Silvana, 2017

bilingual edition. 173 pages. 11.00x9.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8836633889

Inhaltsangabe:

The influence of Eastern mysticism on the music of The Beatles

Following the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), the Beatles--at that point the most famous band in the world--found themselves increasingly drawn to Eastern mysticism, culminating with the band's 1968 trip to India (accompanied, of course, by wives and girlfriends as well as an entourage of friends, assistants and reporters). The journey that John, Paul, George and Ringo made to study at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram would become a key event in the history of Western pop culture: followed breathlessly in the international media, it caused an enormous stir and was fundamental in spreading a certain fascination with the East that influenced music, literature, cinema and fashion at the end of the 1960s.

Nothing Is Real takes its title from a memorable line from the Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields Forever." Eastern thinking and spiritual practices felt liberating and modern to a generation looking for alternatives, and the Beatles' trip was a watershed moment, announcing definitively that Europe and the United States had a genuine trend on its hands. Taking the Beatles' 1968 journey as its point of departure, Nothing Is Real invokes this extraordinary moment through contemporary reports, archival photographs, album covers, books and magazines from the period, and artworks by Ettore Sottsass, Alighiero Boetti, Francesco Clemente, Luigi Ontani, Aldo Mondino and Julian Schnabel.

Von der hinteren Coverseite: A journey that The Beatles made to India in August 1968 is considered one of the key events for western pop culture: it caused an enormous stir in the international media and was fundamental in spreading a certain interest for the East that influenced music, literature, cinema, fashion and customs from the close of that decade.
The book (whose title is reminiscent of a famous lyric in the song Strawberry Fields Forever, one that invites people into searching beyond appearances with a sort of spiritual and metaphysical tension) illustrates that extraordinary moment through historical photographs, reports from the period, works of art, in addition to album, book and magazine covers.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nothing Is Real: Quando I Beatles ...
Verlag: Silvana
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New