Mati & The Music: 52 Record Covers 1955-2005

The 1960s and 1970s offered many options for mind expansion: psychedelic drugs, Eastern meditation, sex—and the art of Mati Klarwein. Klarwein (1932–2002) was a major presence in the New York art scene, admired by everyone from Andy Warhol and Salvador Dalí to Jimi Hendrix and Jackie Onassis (who commissioned him to paint a portrait of John F. Kennedy). His pop-surrealist universe of pantheistic religious harmony, sexual fertility and gender and racial unity gave visual expression to an era...