Visit Dante’s Inferno
1967
Artist / Maker / Culture
Seymour Chwast
DIMENSIONS
28 x 18 in. (71.1 x 45.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.673
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Books, Literary, Magazines, Religion, The Push Pin Legacy, United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Books, Literary, Magazines, Religion, The Push Pin Legacy, United States
This faux travel poster appeared as an insert to the Push Pin Graphic number 52, an issue dedicated to the theme of posters. Each poster is double sided, featuring excerpts from the classic texts referenced in the images, including Homer’s Odyssey, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Dante’s Inferno. The passages specifically describe moments in the stories when the characters are in a drug-induced state, reflecting the psychedelic overtones of that month’s publication.
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