# What was the first album with psychedelic cover art?

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> [@mikecurtis](#):
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> Not a direct answer to your question, but Vox links the psychedelic esthetic to Art Nouveau

I came here to say that. I think TV tropes would call that [Older Than Television](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTelevision). I was going to peg it as Older Than Radio, but it turns out radio and Art Nouveau were both invented in 1890.

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