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American Art in the 1960s (1972)
Directed by Michael Blackwood
Overview
During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American Art in the Sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and the sensibilities of the new decade. The art of that time mirrors the optimism and the affluence, and the technology and the vulgarity of those boom years.
Length 57 minutes
Actors
Andy Warhol | John Cage | Jasper Johns | Robert Rauschenberg | Roy Lichtenstein | Helen Frankenthaler