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==Cultural heritage== The iconic center of the Flower Power movement was the [[Haight-Ashbury]] district in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].<ref>Anthony Ashbolt, [http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/2_07/Ashbolt.pdf "Go Ask Alice: Remembering the Summer of Love"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913113150/http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/2_07/Ashbolt.pdf |date=2009-09-13 }}, ''Australasian Journal of American Studies'', December 2007, p.35-47</ref><ref name="npr">Mandalit del Barco, [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11650213 "Haight-Ashbury a Flower-Power Holdover"], ''Morning Edition'', National Public Radio, July 2, 2007</ref> By the mid-1960s, the area, marked by the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets, had become a focal point for psychedelic rock music.<ref>Charles Perry, ''The Haight Ashbury: A History'', Wenner Books; Reprint edition (30 Mar 2007), 320pp, {{ISBN|1-932958-55-X}}</ref> Musicians and bands like [[Jefferson Airplane]], the [[Grateful Dead]] and [[Janis Joplin]] all lived a short distance from the famous intersection. During the 1967 [[Summer of Love]], thousands of hippies gathered there, popularized by [[chart hit|hit]] songs such as "[[San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)]]". A July 7, 1967, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine cover story on "The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture", and an August [[CBS News]] television report on "The Hippie Temptation",<ref>Harry Reasoner, [http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/88444.htm "The Hippie Temptation"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060319070344/http://www.sfsu.edu/~avitv/avcatalog/88444.htm |date=2006-03-19 }}, ''CBS News'', August 22, 1967</ref> as well as other major media exposure, brought the hippie subculture to national attention and popularized the Flower Power movement across the country and around the world. That same summer, [[the Beatles]]' hit single "[[All You Need Is Love]]" served as an anthem for the movement.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wiener|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Wiener|title=Come Together: John Lennon in His Time|year=1991|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, Ill.|isbn=978-0-252-06131-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cometogetherjohn00jonw/page/40 40]|url=https://archive.org/details/cometogetherjohn00jonw/page/40}}</ref> On 25 June, the Beatles performed the song on the ''[[Our World (TV special)|Our World]]'' international satellite broadcast, ensuring that the pacifist message reached an audience estimated at 400 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-beatles-make-history-with-all-you-need-is-love-a-minute-by-minute-breakdown-20140828 |title=The Beatles Make History With 'All You Need Is Love': A Minute-by-Minute Breakdown |last=Edwards |first=Gavin|date=28 August 2014|publisher=[[Rolling Stone|rollingstone.com]]|access-date=11 March 2017}}</ref> [[File:Late 1960s cotton print fabric.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Cotton fabric, late 1960s (USA)]] The [[avant-garde]] art of [[Milton Glaser]], [[Heinz Edelmann]], and [[Peter Max]] became synonymous with the flower power generation. Edelman's illustration style was best known in his art designs for the Beatles' 1968 animated film ''[[Yellow Submarine (film)|Yellow Submarine]]''. Glaser, the founder of [[Push Pin Studios]], also developed the loose psychedelic graphic design, seen for example in his seminal 1966 poster illustration of [[Bob Dylan]] with paisley hair.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS/2004/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml | title=2004 Lifetime Achievement Award | series=National Design Awards | work=Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum | access-date=2011-03-17 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215182403/http://cooperhewitt.org/NDA/WINNERS/2004/LIFETIMEACHIEVEMENT/index.shtml | archive-date=2010-12-15 }}</ref> It was the posters by pop artist [[Peter Max]], with their vivid fluid designs painted in [[Day-Glo]] colors, which became visual icons of flower power.<ref>{{cite book | title=Arts & Entertainment Fads | first1=Frank W. | last1=Hoffman | first2=William G. | last2=Bailey | pages= 163β164 | publisher=Haworth Press |date=August 1990 | isbn=0-86656-881-6}}</ref> Max's cover story in ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine (September 1969) as well as appearances on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' and ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', further established "flower power" style art into mainstream culture.<ref name='ArtofPeterMax'>{{cite book | last = Riley II | first = Charles A. | title = The Art of Peter Max | publisher = Abrams, New York | year = 2002 | edition = 1st | pages = [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810932708/page/228 228β235] | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780810932708/page/228 | isbn = 0-8109-3270-9 }}</ref>
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