Acid Test poster modern variant reprints, 2010.

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Acid Test poster modern variant reprints, 2010.

The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by Ken Kesey in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid 1960s, centered around the use of the psychedelic drug LSD. This collection consists of modern variant reprints based on the original poster designs for the Acid Tests, as produced by Zane Kesey.

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Kesey, Zane.

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Kesey, Ken

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Ken Kesey was a uniquely American author and cultural figure. His interest in the outdoors, the extraordinary, and experimental drug use inspired his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Equally vital as a member of the Merry Pranksters, the 1960s counterculture group, Kesey expressed and embodied an uninhibited individual's need to resist corrupt authority. His literary output was sparse, as he preferred experience to authorship, but his mantra of being different without being a threat...