The Rise of the Sixties; American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

by Thomas Crow

• ISBN13: 9780300106831
• ISBN10: 0300106831
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-04-08
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

One of Thomas Crow's most influential titles,The Rise of the Sixties, first published in 1996, provides an excellent overview of the major themes and figures in one of art history's most radical and complicated decades. Presenting an international array of artists against the background of world events in the 1960s, Crow portrays the ways in which the American art sceneincluding such key figures as Leo Castelli, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warholfit into the corresponding European and international movements of the time, among them Situationalism, Conceptualism, Feminism, Environmentalism, and Op Art. Generously illustrated with 120 images, 80 of which are in color, the newly available book encompasses all the major players in the art world of the 1960s and examines how they influenced and inspired one another. The author's fascinating new afterword examines the themes of the 60s in the context of recent historical, political, and cultural events.

Author Biography

Thomas J. Crow is director of the Getty Research Institute and professor of art history at the University of Southern California. Among his previous books are Modern Art in the Common Culture and Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France, both published by Yale University Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(8)
Independence Days	15	(24)
Heartland	19	(3)
West Coast Tincan Evening Sundown Vision	22	(10)
New York Happenings	32	(7)
Consumers and Spectators	39	(30)
London Calling	43	(4)
Europe: the Anti-Consumers	47	(8)
Situated Painting	55	(4)
Trials of Modernism	59	(10)
Living with Pop	69	(36)
The Sacred and the Profane	69	(7)
Dada Hollywood	76	(7)
Death on the Production Line	83	(4)
A Dealer's World	87	(5)
Capitalist Realisms	92	(13)
Vision and Performance	105	(30)
Eye of the Beholder	105	(6)
Monochromes	111	(9)
Blues	120	(3)
Stage Directions	123	(2)
Out of Many One	125	(3)
In Flux	128	(7)
Artists and Workers	135	(26)
The Spectacular Artist	136	(3)
Primary Artifacts	139	(6)
Guerrillas in the Gallery	145	(5)
Language Games	150	(11)
1969	161	(21)
Verb Forms	161	(8)
Anatomies	169	(7)
No Foreground	176	(6)
Afterword	182	(8)
Timeline	190	(4)
Bibliography	194	(2)
Picture Credits	196	(1)
Index	197