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At once comprehensive and fantastical, informative and hallucinatory, this beautifully designed book showcases the greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and music. An unprecedented insight into the effect of drugs on life, politics and popular culture, the Santo Domingo collection includes pieces from Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Aleister Crowley, and many more.A library of more than 50,000 items, the collection contains everything from rare manuscripts and photos to posters, bottles, letters, opium pipes, and pinball machines. This volume sheds explores the innumerable influences of mind-enhancing drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries, and sheds a light on an often misunderstood force in history.

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Author:

Peter Watts

Format:

Hardcover

Pages:

480

Publisher:

Anthology Editions

RRP:

$150.00

Size:

334 x 251 mm

Weight:

ISBN:

9781944860158

Availability:

Available

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