Description
Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1957-2009) was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world's greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll. A library of more than 100,000 items, it contained everything from rare manuscripts and photos to posters, bottles, letters, opium pipes, and pinball machines. Exploring the innumerable influences of mind-enhancing drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries, Santo Domingo's collection contained work by diverse figures including Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Aleister Crowley, and many more. This extraordinary collection is vividly documented in Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo.
An unprecedented insight into the effect of drugs on life, politics and popular culture that's comprehensive and fantastical, informative and hallucinatory all at once, through one of the most comprehensive private collections.
About the Author
Julio Mario Santo Domingo was born in Rio on October 20, 1957, the eldest son of Julio Santo Domingo, a Colombian businessman, and his Brazilian wife, Edyala Braga. Julio was raised in Colombia, moved to Brazil, then New York and finally Paris before he was nine. He studied law, then moved to New York to obtain a degree in comparative literature at Columbia University, the home of the Beats, whom he came to idolize. It was in New York that he met Vera Rechulski. They married in 1983.
Peter Watts has been a journalist since he was 17. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, Uncut, Time Out and many more. His first book was Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station, published by Paradise Road.
Reviews
The collection is on an unimaginable scale, filling nearly three terraced houses and with Harvard recently showing only a small part of the vast collection. For fans of pop culture, this is not to be missed https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/altered-states-the-greatest-collection-of-drugs-related-culture-uncovered/
This Is the Ultimate Book on Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/ywng7k/julio-santo-domingo-lsd-library
"Julio was a rock star, he just didn't play an instrument." - Lenny Kravitz
"A compulsive collector since the 1970s, Julio Mario Santo Domingo has accrued nearly three house's worth of literature, knick-knacks and paraphernalia - covering everything from cocaine to opium, black magick to beat poetry, erotica to romanticism." -Huck
"...Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo offer(s) an unprecedented insight into the effect of drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries." - Hero
"...Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. amassed hundreds of thousands of items in a private collection, all of which pay tribute to rebellion and altered states of mind." - Mental Floss
"The collection is on an unimaginable scale, filling nearly three terraced houses and with Harvard recently showing only a small part of the vast collection. For fans of pop culture, this is not to be missed. " - Creative Boom
Book Information
ISBN 9781944860158
Author Peter Watts
Format Hardback
Page Count 480
Imprint Anthology Editions
Publisher Anthology Editions
Weight(grams) 3400g
An unprecedented insight into the effect of drugs on life, politics and popular culture that's comprehensive and fantastical, informative and hallucinatory all at once, through one of the most comprehensive private collections.
About the Author
Julio Mario Santo Domingo was born in Rio on October 20, 1957, the eldest son of Julio Santo Domingo, a Colombian businessman, and his Brazilian wife, Edyala Braga. Julio was raised in Colombia, moved to Brazil, then New York and finally Paris before he was nine. He studied law, then moved to New York to obtain a degree in comparative literature at Columbia University, the home of the Beats, whom he came to idolize. It was in New York that he met Vera Rechulski. They married in 1983.
Peter Watts has been a journalist since he was 17. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Daily Telegraph, Uncut, Time Out and many more. His first book was Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station, published by Paradise Road.
Reviews
The collection is on an unimaginable scale, filling nearly three terraced houses and with Harvard recently showing only a small part of the vast collection. For fans of pop culture, this is not to be missed https://www.creativeboom.com/inspiration/altered-states-the-greatest-collection-of-drugs-related-culture-uncovered/
This Is the Ultimate Book on Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/ywng7k/julio-santo-domingo-lsd-library
"Julio was a rock star, he just didn't play an instrument." - Lenny Kravitz
"A compulsive collector since the 1970s, Julio Mario Santo Domingo has accrued nearly three house's worth of literature, knick-knacks and paraphernalia - covering everything from cocaine to opium, black magick to beat poetry, erotica to romanticism." -Huck
"...Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo offer(s) an unprecedented insight into the effect of drugs on art, science, and politics over the centuries." - Hero
"...Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr. amassed hundreds of thousands of items in a private collection, all of which pay tribute to rebellion and altered states of mind." - Mental Floss
"The collection is on an unimaginable scale, filling nearly three terraced houses and with Harvard recently showing only a small part of the vast collection. For fans of pop culture, this is not to be missed. " - Creative Boom
Book Information
ISBN 9781944860158
Author Peter Watts
Format Hardback
Page Count 480
Imprint Anthology Editions
Publisher Anthology Editions
Weight(grams) 3400g
